Searching for a serial # for an old old town canoe
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 117861 is an 18 foot long, AA (or top) grade, Otca model with red Western cedar planking open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, mahogany seats, a keel, and a floor rack. It was built between January, 1932 and May, 1933. The original exterior paint color was similar to the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design39.gif which was known as the design number 39. It shipped on June 7th, 1933 to Big Moose, 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 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 the canoe. Please attach some pictures if the original exterior design is still showing. 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 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 the canoe. Please attach some pictures if the original exterior design is still showing. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
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This is our canoe!
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This is our canoe! How exciting! Same color -orange- unusual on our lake but always known as "ours". It was delivered to a family who owned our camp from the 1930-50's.
My parents had the canoe completely restored in 1988. Not orange though as they thought they might sell it and the restorer said to let the buyer pick the color. Since then we use very little as we are afraid to hurt it. Prior to that as kids we beat the heck out this canoe taking it everywhere in all kinds of water. Even played "sink the canoe" while we sat on it in the water, diving off it etc. no respect in the 1960's!my dad was forever patching it with epoxy and black electrical tape!
I have restored pictures to follow.
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This is our canoe! How exciting! Same color -orange- unusual on our lake but always known as "ours". It was delivered to a family who owned our camp from the 1930-50's.
My parents had the canoe completely restored in 1988. Not orange though as they thought they might sell it and the restorer said to let the buyer pick the color. Since then we use very little as we are afraid to hurt it. Prior to that as kids we beat the heck out this canoe taking it everywhere in all kinds of water. Even played "sink the canoe" while we sat on it in the water, diving off it etc. no respect in the 1960's!my dad was forever patching it with epoxy and black electrical tape!
I have restored pictures to follow.
