mlackore, Old Town Canoe

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Curious about Wooden Canoes
I have just purchased an Old Town canoe, serial number is 55880 18, can you provide me with the build sheet? Thank you.
 
The Old Town canoe with serial number 55880 is an 18 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade Charles River model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, maple decks, maple thwarts, maple seats, and a floor rack. It was built between 1919 and 1920. The original exterior paint color was dark red. It was shipped on April 21st, 1920 to Saint Paul, Minn. 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. 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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