Old Town?
Hello Adam,
There is a 16 foot Old Town canoe with the serial number 108080-- but please compare the details of the build record with your canoe to be certain they match. If they don't, we may be able to figure out what you have. It helps to see a picture.
Old Town 108080 is a 16 foot CS grade ("common sense", or not with mahogany trim) HW model ("heavy water", or a boat built for lake paddling), built between November of 1930 and March of 1931. It has Western red cedar planking and open spruce gunwales. The decks, seats, and thwarts are oak. It has a keel and outside stems and was painted light green before shipment to William H. Hoeger Co. in Los Angeles, CA. I don't see an exact shipping date, but assume 1931.
Look at your boat for details such as oak trim, open wales (can you see little slots on the edge of the canoe, formed by the ribs with trim on either side?), outside stems (a strip of hardwood on the outside ends of the canoe-- may be painted-over or covered with canvas or fiberglass after all these years). If you can post a picture, we can say, "yup" or "nope".
Pictures can be easily uploaded by scrolling down to the "manage attachments" box below this one. Clicking on that will give you a browse bar so you can find a picture in your computer. You might also check the canoe identification webside here:
http://dragonflycanoe.com/id/index.html
Scroll to Old Town on the left, and see if the deck in the picture looks like the deck on your canoe.
I'll attach the scan of this canoe's build record below. Scans of approximately 210,000 records were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. Additional information about the project to preserve these records is available at
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