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The Old Town canoe with serial number 120072 is a 17 foot long, AA (or top) grade, Otca model with western red cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, twenty inch mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, mahogany seats, a keel, outside stems, a floor rack, and rub rails. It was built between December, 1936 and April, 1937. The original exterior paint color was black on top and orange below with a gold stripe and leaf ends edged in gold arranged in a design that is similar to the image at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design23.gif and known as design number 23. It shipped on April 27th, 1937 to Dover, New Jersey. 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 join or 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 join.
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
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 join or 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 join.
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
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H.E. Pennypacker
LOVES Wooden Canoes
Hi Benson- Hope not too picky, but posted build record is for 120027 (15/50), not 120072 (17' Otca). I'm guessing Jim would notice soon enough!
Ah yes, dyslexia strikes deep. Thanks for catching this error. It has been corrected now. Sorry about that,
Benson
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JClearwater
Wooden Canoes are in the Blood
Thank you Benson. I bought this canoe for $100 years ago and it has been hanging in my shed ever since awaiting its "hour of resurrection." I may actually work on it this winter. Dover, NJ is about 50 miles from Sparrowbush, NY where I bought it. So it hasn't moved very far in the last 75 years.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
