Assistance requested for build record for Old Town, serial number 112249 16
- Thread starter Bobby
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smallboatshop
Restorers
Hi Bobby,
Your canoe is 16' CS Grade (middle grade) Otca Model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, thwarts and seat frames. There is a notation on the build record next to Finish Rails which I cannot make out. Your canoe was equipped with a keel, a bob stay (painter ring affixed through the stem) and was painted "green to sample". It was built from 1931 to 1933 and shipped to Chicago in 1934. There was a inquiry in 1974 from John Kirschner.
The scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image. 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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.
Dan
Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
Your canoe is 16' CS Grade (middle grade) Otca Model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, thwarts and seat frames. There is a notation on the build record next to Finish Rails which I cannot make out. Your canoe was equipped with a keel, a bob stay (painter ring affixed through the stem) and was painted "green to sample". It was built from 1931 to 1933 and shipped to Chicago in 1934. There was a inquiry in 1974 from John Kirschner.
The scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image. 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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.
Dan
Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
