#818361 16 Square stern boat

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Please send a copy of the build record for #81836. Should be a square stern boat about 1924.
Thanks
 
Hello:

Your boat, OT serial # 81836, is indeed a square stern model, 16' in length, built in January and February of 1924. It is CS grade with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, spruce seats and thwarts. It was equipped with outside stem, floor rack, keel and sponsons, originally painted dark green and shipped to Berlin, NH on 22 April 1924. I'm having difficulty attaching a copy of the build record; perhaps one of the others can supply.

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 and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php 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.

Hope this helps.

Roger
 
Thanks Roger.
Hopefully someone can attach a copy of the record. I wonder if it says anything about oars.
Bruce
 
The build record is attached below along with the catalog page from 1924 which indicates that "one pair brass rowlocks" were included and oars were available. Optional extras like oars were typically not listed on the build records during this era.

Benson
 

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