Old Town serial number 103449
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Hello. Old Town number 103449 is an 18 foot CS (common sense, or middle) grade, HW model canoe that was completed November of 1929 to June 1930. It has red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, oak decks, oak seat frames, oak thwarts, a keel and was originally painted Yale blue. It was shipped to Church Electric Co. in Augusta, Maine, on June 21, 1930. There is no mention of the mast seat on the build record, but it could have been installed by the original dealer at the customer's request, or a subsequent owner could have added it at any time. Does it have the mast step below the hole in the seat frame? This would be a wooden piece that the bottom of a mast fits into. It isn't uncommon to see a canoe with a mast seat but no other aspects of sail rigging-- your canoe might only have been paddled and not sailed.
A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached 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 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.
Kathy
A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached 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 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.
Kathy
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Original sponsons, too.
Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Thanks for mentioning the sponsons! Yes, this canoe had sponsons when it left the factory. They are sometimes left off during a re-canvassing, which explains why they are no longer there... but the canoe does have carry thwarts at each end, which Old Town used on their sponson canoes.
