Old town canoe info.

Hello. New to the forum. Would like to find out some info on a old town canoe I just bought serial # 211986. I know it's 17'2" so that would make it a tripper interested in what year it was made.
Thank you.
 
The Old Town canoe with serial number 211986 is a 17 foot long Chipewyan Tripper model with aluminum inserts in the rails that weighed 76 pounds. It was built in January, 1976. The original exterior color was avocado. It shipped on April 27th, 1976 to Newbury, Mass. The back side of this scan shows that it had some exterior vinyl skin breaks inside and out along with lines on the inside. It was purchased on August 20th, 1976 and the warranty card was returned from Winchester, Mass. Scans of both sides of this build record can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below.

211986.jpg 211986-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. 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. See http://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?threads/serial-number-search-request.14377/ for a similar canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson
 
Thank you very much. I had a idea it was in the mid 1970's just wasn't sure when. It is in very good shape for 41 years old I should be able to get many more years out of it.
 
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