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Hi,
Your canoe is an 18' AA Grade (top grade) OTCA model equipped with a keel and floor rack. It was built in 1954 and sold to the Winnipesaukee Motor Craft Company in Wolfeboro, NH. It was originally painted dark green. Although not specified on the build record, the AA OTCAs usually had mahogany decks, thwarts, seat frames, inwales and gunwales.
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
Hi,
Your canoe is an 18' AA Grade (top grade) OTCA model equipped with a keel and floor rack. It was built in 1954 and sold to the Winnipesaukee Motor Craft Company in Wolfeboro, NH. It was originally painted dark green. Although not specified on the build record, the AA OTCAs usually had mahogany decks, thwarts, seat frames, inwales and gunwales.
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
