Old Town 56019
- Thread starter abhraxas
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smallboatshop
Restorers
Hi,
Your canoe is a 17' AA Grade (Top Grade) Ideal Model with western red cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, thwarts and seat frames. It looks like it was equipped with half ribs and a keel. It was built in 1919, painted dark green and shipped in 1920 to St Paul, MN.
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
Your canoe is a 17' AA Grade (Top Grade) Ideal Model with western red cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, thwarts and seat frames. It looks like it was equipped with half ribs and a keel. It was built in 1919, painted dark green and shipped in 1920 to St Paul, MN.
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
