Dave Osborn
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Please post Old Town 133741-18.
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Old Town 133741-18
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
hmmm...
Old Town 133741 is a 16 foot canoe, Dave... a very interesting one, so I'll post the record even though it may not be your canoe.
It's an interesting canoe because it was started in October of 1941 and completed on December 24, 1941... and I can't help wondering what went through the minds of the folks who were working on it. Not only the Pearl Harbor part... but finishing up this canoe on Christmas Eve... with the US having just entered the war.
Anyway, it's a 16 foot CS grade Yankee model canoe, with open spruce gunwales and ash decks/thwarts/seat frames, and a keel. It was painted a really interesting color: "unpainted".... hmmmm. Perhaps because it was Christmas? Or, maybe the kiddies at Camp Manitowish (in Milwaukee), where the canoe was sent on December 29, 1941, were scheduled to paint the canoe...?
Let me know if we have to try again, Dave... the location it was shipped to seems like it might be right.
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 your membership to 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.
Kathy
Old Town 133741 is a 16 foot canoe, Dave... a very interesting one, so I'll post the record even though it may not be your canoe.
It's an interesting canoe because it was started in October of 1941 and completed on December 24, 1941... and I can't help wondering what went through the minds of the folks who were working on it. Not only the Pearl Harbor part... but finishing up this canoe on Christmas Eve... with the US having just entered the war.
Anyway, it's a 16 foot CS grade Yankee model canoe, with open spruce gunwales and ash decks/thwarts/seat frames, and a keel. It was painted a really interesting color: "unpainted".... hmmmm. Perhaps because it was Christmas? Or, maybe the kiddies at Camp Manitowish (in Milwaukee), where the canoe was sent on December 29, 1941, were scheduled to paint the canoe...?
Let me know if we have to try again, Dave... the location it was shipped to seems like it might be right.
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 your membership to 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.
Kathy
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Dave Osborn
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That's it, Kath. Probably couldn't read the 16 in the dim light.
Unpainted is not a surprise to me. They have a special color theme that is in their canoes and other equipment. It is kind of a mellon orange. Milwaukee was the headquarters for YMCA camps. The camp is actually just a few miles from me near Boulder Junction. The canoe is still at the camp. I will be doing some work on this "Christmas canoe" this winter and others in their fleet as well.
I wish I would have known about this camp when I was a kid. It has a storied history, cool programs that send groups way beyond the camp itself, a counselor training program that is top notch, and importantly a very active and generous alumni base.
check it out here..... www.manito-wish.org
Thanks!!
Dave
Unpainted is not a surprise to me. They have a special color theme that is in their canoes and other equipment. It is kind of a mellon orange. Milwaukee was the headquarters for YMCA camps. The camp is actually just a few miles from me near Boulder Junction. The canoe is still at the camp. I will be doing some work on this "Christmas canoe" this winter and others in their fleet as well.
I wish I would have known about this camp when I was a kid. It has a storied history, cool programs that send groups way beyond the camp itself, a counselor training program that is top notch, and importantly a very active and generous alumni base.
check it out here..... www.manito-wish.org
Thanks!!
Dave
Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
The Y-camps in Minnesota are great, too. Camp Widjiwagan-- with Joe Seliga's canoes-- is one of them.
