Serial Number Search 139783
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Greg Nolan
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 13983 is an 17 foot long, CS (common sense or standard) grade Yankee model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales and ash seats, decks and thwarts, and was equipped with a keel. It was built in 1944, being finished in June 1944. The original exterior paint color was maroon . It was shipped to Rochester. NY on June 27, 1944. 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 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 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.
Because this canoe was built during WWII, when there was a shortage of various materials for consumer use, such as brass, it is likely that some or all of the metal parts of your canoe, such as tacks, screws, bolts, and bang plates, are not the usual brass, but some other metal, usually steel.
Greg Nolan
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 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.
Because this canoe was built during WWII, when there was a shortage of various materials for consumer use, such as brass, it is likely that some or all of the metal parts of your canoe, such as tacks, screws, bolts, and bang plates, are not the usual brass, but some other metal, usually steel.
Greg Nolan
