A YMCA Camp Canoe
Hello-- If your canoe is an Old Town, the following may be what it is:
Old Town 120499 is a 16 foot, CS (common sense or middle) grade Yankee model canoe that was finished February to May of 1937. It has open spruce gunwales and oak decks, thwarts and seat frames, has half-ribs and also bilge keels (seen on camp and livery canoes to help protect the hull). The canoe was shipped "unfinished" (no paint) so perhaps the staff or campers painted it something interesting. The canoe was shipped to YMCA Camp Pittsfield in Pittsfield, MA, on 29 May 1937.
Image of the scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image.
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 athttp://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
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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.
More information on the Old Town Company can be found in Sue Audette's book, Old Town, Our First Hundred Years, which is available through the WCHA store and most booksellers, eBay, Amazon, and public libraries.
Kathy
