Information on serial # 18942 16
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smallboatshop
Restorers
18942-16
Hi,
Your canoe is a 16' CS (Common Sense or Middle Grade) OTCA Model with western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, 20" ash decks, ash thwarts & seat frames. It was equipped with a keel and floor rack. Your canoe was built in 1911 - 1912 ( 105 years ago!), painted Dark Red and sold to Kennedy Bros. in St Paul's.
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 at http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.
Dan
Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
Hi,
Your canoe is a 16' CS (Common Sense or Middle Grade) OTCA Model with western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, 20" ash decks, ash thwarts & seat frames. It was equipped with a keel and floor rack. Your canoe was built in 1911 - 1912 ( 105 years ago!), painted Dark Red and sold to Kennedy Bros. in St Paul's.
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 at http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.
Dan
Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
