17' Sponson Old Town #147493
- Thread starter BillGreggs
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smallboatshop
Restorers
Hi,
Your canoe is a 17 foot CS grade (Common sense or middle grade) HW model (Heavy Water) with spruce planking*, open spruce gunwales, a keel, outside stems and sponsons. It was built in 1947, painted bright red and sold to a Mr. Taylor in Scranton, PA.
This scan and several hundred thousand others 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/ot_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-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html 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.
*It's interesting to see spruce planking. From numbers 147475 through 147502 there are 7 canoes or boats with spruce planking. The rest of this group has Maine cedar planking.
Dan
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
Your canoe is a 17 foot CS grade (Common sense or middle grade) HW model (Heavy Water) with spruce planking*, open spruce gunwales, a keel, outside stems and sponsons. It was built in 1947, painted bright red and sold to a Mr. Taylor in Scranton, PA.
This scan and several hundred thousand others 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/ot_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-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html 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.
*It's interesting to see spruce planking. From numbers 147475 through 147502 there are 7 canoes or boats with spruce planking. The rest of this group has Maine cedar planking.
Dan
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
