looking for history about old town canoe # 172348 L6? I just bought it.

ronsoj

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Hi all I just bought this canoe I believe it is an old one, it is in good shape but needs painting. Looking for history information?
 
Old Town number 172348 was a 16-foot Guide model built in 1962 and shipped to the Smith College Boat House in Northampton, Massachusetts (which happens to be about 20 minutes from where I live). It had a keel and was painted Guide Special Green.

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.

If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.

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.

Norm
 

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