looking for s/n 150886 17
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Al Sienkiewicz
LOVES Wooden Canoes
The Old Town "canoe" with serial number 150886 is actually a rowboat that is 15 foot long, CS grade, with a round bottom. It was built between April and May, 1948. While the stampings are light, it appears the boat had a keel, outside stems and a floor rack. The original color was white and green. It shipped on May 27, 1948 to the state of Maine Fish and Game Dept. in Augusta. Maine.
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the thumbnail image attached below. This scans 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 will join or renew your membership to 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 don't match the canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Al
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the thumbnail image attached below. This scans 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 will join or renew your membership to 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 don't match the canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Al
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it's 17 feet long with sponsons on each side.it was sitting in a field for more then 30 years.the man that sold it to me was around 80 he said that his father got that when he was a kid.it taking me over 80 hours to repair the old girl, she floats great in the rivers.I still need to replace her seats and her supports brackets. they were totally gone.now she looks and ride great also the ribs are oak. on ash. gunnals are also ash.
Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Thought I might have found the right record when I replied to a separate post yesterday... it is here:
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=5645
Old Town didn't make ribs of oak or gunwales of ash (as far as I know), so you may want to post pictures. You may have a canoe built by someone else, if your assessment of wood species is correct... or someone could have replaced the original spruce gunwales and cedar ribs.
Kathy
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=5645
Old Town didn't make ribs of oak or gunwales of ash (as far as I know), so you may want to post pictures. You may have a canoe built by someone else, if your assessment of wood species is correct... or someone could have replaced the original spruce gunwales and cedar ribs.
Kathy
