Chestnut Canoe

[Roger]

My Canoe serial # is 15-71621. Could you tell me what model and when was it built? Thanks in advance. Roger

 

[Jan Bloom]

Good question to which there is no good answer as to when it was built as there are no records for Chestnut serial numbers. As for the model it would help to post a few measurements such as width, depth and rib style, wide ribs or narrow ribs. A few pics would also be of great help.

 

[davelanthier]

Unfortunately there are no Chestnut records known to exist. The measurements will help to determine what model it is. I have a circa 1960 15' Chestnut Chum advertised for sale on the WCHA site which you could compare to yours. The serial number [ work order # ] is 71517 which is pretty close to your number. Hope this helps.

 

[Kathryn Klos]

If you post pictures, one of us who has the Chestnut catalogs on CD can try to figure out the model you have.

There's also a book, "When the Chestnut was in Flower"--- very interesting reading, and probably in the library as well as here:

http://woodencanoe.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=472

Kathy