Hello, I was wondering if I could get build information on a wood/canvas canoe that I bought from my neighbor thirty years ago. He said that it was an Old Town. At the time that meant nothing to me as my only experience with canoes back then was with Grumman aluminum canoes. The number is 68006 17. I read in another serial number post that the 17 is the length. I suspected it might represent length though the actual length is close to eighteen feet. A number of years ago I looked at an Old Town website and saw the chart giving approximate time frame of when it was built - around 1922 - 1923. I have only ever used the canoe four or five times and those were during the first ten years that I had it. It has spent the last twenty years stored in my father-in-laws barn. It, then, and still now, seems to be structurally sound. After reading through some of your forum posts, the word "seems" becomes much less meaningful. Thankyou