16 foot Old Town

[Bill Perron]

Hi All (Benson?)

Do you have any information on a 16 foot Old Town # 148495.

Thanks and

All the best

Bill Perron

 

[Benson Gray]

The Old Town canoe with serial number 148495 is a 16 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, and a keel. It was built between April and June, 1947. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It was shipped on February 2nd, 1948 to New London, Conn. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

This scan and several hundred thousand others 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/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 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.

Benson