northwoods
Curious about Wooden Canoes
Do you have a build record for old town 132288 16? Thanks
ot 132288 16
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Old Town 132288 is a 16 foot CS (common sense) Yankee model canoe, finished between April and July of 1941. It has open spruce gunwales and ash decks, thwarts, and seat frames. It was fitted with a keel and a floor rack and was originally bright red. Was shipped shortly after a memorable day in history, on December 12, 1941, to Newark, New Jersey.
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.
Kathy
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.
Kathy
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Curious about Wooden Canoes
Thanks for the quick response Kathy. I am assuming that the interior was varnished and that the exterior was the bright red. Would you agree? The reason I ask is that the interior has been painted bright red also and I don't think it would of been shipped that way.
Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
The inside of the boat would have been varnished originally, usually several coats.
