Oldtown 16' wood and canvas #128985
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 128985 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with open spruce gunwales, ash seats, ash decks, ash thwarts, and a keel. It was built between January and April, 1940. The original exterior paint color was similar to the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design47.gif which was known as the design number 47. It was shipped on April 23rd, 1940 to White Plains, New York. 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.
Benson
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.
Benson
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 189956 is a 16 foot long fiberglass Carleton model with a keel that weighed 82 pounds. It was built in May of 1972. The original exterior gelcoat color was avocado. It shipped on June 8th, 1972 to Riverside, Conn. The back side of the card indicates that the warranty card was returned from Port Chester, New York. on June 11th, 1972 after it was sold from the dealer. Scans showing both sides of this build record can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below.
These scans 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.
Benson
These scans 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.
Benson
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Benson,
You are amazing! Thank you so much for your prompt and informative response. May I ask whether the parquet floor was typical of the Carleton models? Also, I am a bit puzzled by the fact that it was built in 1975 but purchased in 1972.
Thanks again for your incredible service.
Wendy
You are amazing! Thank you so much for your prompt and informative response. May I ask whether the parquet floor was typical of the Carleton models? Also, I am a bit puzzled by the fact that it was built in 1975 but purchased in 1972.
Thanks again for your incredible service.
Wendy
The end grain balsa wood floors were used on all of Old Town's Carleton and FG model canoes. See http://forums.wcha.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12405&d=1284306086 for more details. The 1975 dates were errors that I have since corrected. Sorry about that,
Benson
