Old Town #163541

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Curious about Wooden Canoes
Doing research on an OT war canoe donated to a scout camp. Not much is known about its early years, but it's in pretty good shape for its age.

Thank in advance.

Webwood
 
The Old Town canoe with serial number 163541 is a 25 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between May and June, 1955. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on June 21st, 1955 to Winchendon, Mass. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

This scan and several hundred thousand more 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 will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.

It is possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description don't match your canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson
 

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