Build record Please

[JClearwater]

When someone has nothing to do could you look up this canoe? Serial #135649 length is 16'. The seller has an Old Town build sheet for this number but it seems to me that it doesn't match the canoe. The canoe does have diamond head bolts, but the long decks are not mentioned on the build sheet. Maybe it's a Carleton?

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Benson Gray]

The Old Town canoe with serial number 135649 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, and a keel. It was built between June and September, 1942. The original exterior color was dark green and it shipped to Rochester, New York on March 26th, 1943. A scan of this build record can be found below.

This scan and several hundred thousand more were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will donate, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. It appears to have had long decks and a floor rack added sometime after it left the factory since these aren't mentioned on the build record. The Carleton records stop at serial number 20540 in 1943. Let me know if you have other questions or if there is anything else that I can do to help. Thanks,

Benson

 

[JClearwater]

Thanks Benson. The long decks and floor rack may have been added after it left the factory, who knows. It's listed on Ebay for more money than I'm willing to pay but it's interesting none the less. Still located in Rochester, NY.

Thanks again,
Jim