Can you identify this canoe logo?
While sanding down the boat, I found this logo at the bow on both sides. Anyone know it? Any ideas how to find it? I already tried a google image search…
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May not be brand but camp or canoe rental FK
That may not be a brand logo – but an eagle scout symbol? The yellow symbol looks vaguely similar to the boy scout symbol.
Maybe. I can hope though.
Yes, it has a fleur de lis like the scouts, but that symbol has been used since the middle ages for all sorts of things.
Looks almost exactly like the Boy Scout logo we had on our canoes when I was a kid in Utah. Instead of the E, ours had an S (for Scofield, the reservoir our camp was based on). Otherwise, almost identical in look. Is there a Scout camp in your area that has an E in its name?
Hmm…something to investigate anyway. I did see some other Boy Scout badges for camps that looked similar in style if not in specific form and design. No camp nearby that starts with an E, but there is a Camp Louis Ernst not far away, and that seems to fit (the logo looks a bit like an L and an E joined together). Didn’t see anything similar doing a google search for Camp Louis Ernst though and nothing at the camp’s website.
I’ve got an email out to an collector of scout patches, and hopefully they can give me an answer.
I agree with Aaron that is a is boy scout camp symbol denoted by the FLEUR-DE-LIS. we have Camp Buck Toms and Camp Pellissippi in my area and both have symbols put on the canoes they have which are not even all made by the same manufacturer.
The stylized capital ‘E” is the logotype for the BSA’s Explorer program. The BSA logo is the fleur-di-lis you see overprinted near the bottom.
This canoe is apparently the property of an Explorer post in the area.
It is an Explorer scout logo. Couldnt find an exact match but this is close. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:xSUEq4g7V7gfDM:http://www.jeromegoolsby.net/scouting/logo-black.gif
That’s confirmed. I just got an email from the expert on Scout logos/patches I reached out to the day I made this post, and it is indeed a Boy Scout Explorer logo, probably dating from the early 1970s. That means this canoe is quite likely older than I am. It also means I can remove that decal and not feel the least bit guilty about it.
Thanks to all of you for your help!
Remove it and not feel guilty about it??? The callousness of man. Fine, take it off…who could possibly care now?
Nothing against BSA – that comment was just to point out that if it was a manufacturer’s logo, I’d feel almost compelled to preserve it. I was a Scout myself.