davebirnbaum
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I jsut obtained an Old Town, I think a Charler River built around 1925. The serial number is 67366. Appreciate any information or work order.
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Dave Birnbaum
Thanks
Dave Birnbaum
Old town canoe
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Dave,
Old Town #67366 was a bit older than that. It was a 16-foot CS (or common sense) grade Charles River model that was built in 1921 and shipped to Rochester, N.Y., in 1922. It had open spruce gunwales, and birch decks, seats and thwarts plus a keel. Its original color was dark green.
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.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
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.
Norm
Old Town #67366 was a bit older than that. It was a 16-foot CS (or common sense) grade Charles River model that was built in 1921 and shipped to Rochester, N.Y., in 1922. It had open spruce gunwales, and birch decks, seats and thwarts plus a keel. Its original color was dark green.
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.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
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.
Norm
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