Found Serial #154408!

[Wade Smith]

I was given a beautiful gem of a W/C canoe about 15 years ago by Lance Lee. I never knew anything about it, but today while washing it, the light was just right, and I saw traces of numbers on the stem. I believe it is 154408.

I believe this canoe was refurbished more than 20 years ago by students at the Apprenticeshop - I think they sanded her interior kinda hard, almost obscuring the S# - and then they oiled the interior, not varnish. Probably with pine tar, knowing the Apprenticeshop!

Build records for Old Town #154408?

Thank you in advance for any help!

 

[Benson Gray]

The Old Town canoe with serial number 154408 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, and a keel. It was built between June and July, 1950. The original exterior paint was dark green enamel. It was shipped on July 28th, 1950 to Binghamton, New York. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.



This scan 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 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. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson