Looking for Old Town Record

neald13

New Member
Hi,
We have an old town canoe with serial number 214031. Looking for some info about it.

thank you,

Neal
 
Welcome, the Old Town canoe with serial number 214031 is an 18 foot long Chipewyan model with aluminum inserts in the rails that weighed 74 pounds. It was built in June, 1976. The original exterior color was yellow. It shipped on June 10th, 1976 to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The back side of this scan shows that it had an exterior vinyl skuff on the bow end under the deck on the outside. Scans of both sides of this build record can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below.

214031.jpg 214031-b.jpg

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. There 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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