Serial number lookup

The Old Town canoe with serial number 204865 is a 17 foot long Chipewyan Tripper model that weighed 73 pounds. It was built in November, 1974. The original exterior color was red. It shipped on December 5th, 1974 to Macon, Georgia. The back side of this scan shows that it had some skuff marks on the bow. Scans of both sides of this build record can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below.

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These scans and several hundred thousand more were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will contribute, join, or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. It should also have a hull identification number (HIN) on the starboard stern that begins with XTC and ends with an encoded date. The page at http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm has more information about interpreting a HIN. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson
 
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