Info about Old Town skiff

[Raceboat61-S]

Gents, I'm a new owner of a beautiful Old Town 12' skiff. Would like any/all information about hull # 144984 that is available. I also have owned a Kennebec canoe since 1975. My grandkids named it "Tippy-Tippy canoe". Cannot find any identifying ##'s on it. The old decal long gone. Thanks, Mike

 

[smallboatshop]

Hi Mike,

144984 is a 12 AA Grade Sport Boat equipped with half ribs and a keel. All sport boats were made as grade AA.(at least in 1946) It was begun in April 1946 and sold in July to the Buffalo Marine Mart in Buffalo, NY

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