Aluminum canoes are a gateway drug!
- Thread starter Rosinante
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Welcome, the Old Town with serial number 128713 is a 16 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW model with open spruce gunwales, half ribs, a keel, and sponsons. It was built between Decemberf, 1939 and March, 1940. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on March, 18th, 1940 to Waterloo, Iowa. 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. 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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. It probably does need you,
Benson
This scan and several hundred thousand more 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/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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. It probably does need you,
Benson
ALCEDO ATTHIS
Curious about Wooden Canoes
I hope some pictures , I am also owner of an aluminium canoe ,with half ribs, a real riddle with no clue for me in France ...
when you say sponsons , they are under decks ?
when you say sponsons , they are under decks ?
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Half ribs are shown in the diagram at https://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/specific.gif and the one at https://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/hull-x-s.gif shows sponsons under the gunwales. See https://wcha.org/classified-archive/Old-Town-HW-16-1950-3-17-24.pdf for a similar canoe with half ribs and sponsons. Let me know if this isn't clear.
Benson
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Curious about Wooden Canoes
thank you Benson , so mine is not an OT
maybe I dont understand the meaning in the title for aluminum
maybe I dont understand the meaning in the title for aluminum
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Alcedo, many of us were first introduced to canoes with an aluminum canoe rental, and we fell in love. As soon as we could, we bought a canoe of our own, then another, always looking for that "magic canoe!" Soon we discovered that we needed more than one canoe and the addiction began! Wood canoes became an expensive compulsion, one that we sometimes poured lots of money and time into. While it may be true that any canoe will float you across a pond, to be alone on a scenic lake, listening to the sound and the way a wooden canoe responds, is an experience worth living for!
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Curious about Wooden Canoes
thank you for you answer , frenchie I am , so I don't notice every thing ... me too I began on an aluminium , ad now , wood & canvas
the aluminium, is now in the back yard (front yard for me ) to be restored , all the gunwales ... sorry for the mistakes
in my head I think maybe OT have build aluminium canoe ...
the aluminium, is now in the back yard (front yard for me ) to be restored , all the gunwales ... sorry for the mistakes
in my head I think maybe OT have build aluminium canoe ...
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Curious about Wooden Canoes
so sorry for my mistake , tank you rosinante &Benson ...
at last , I must turn my paddle seventh time above my head before posting
at last , I must turn my paddle seventh time above my head before posting
