need help with number 134150-15
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The Old Town with serial number 134150 is a 15 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Ojibway model with open spruce gunwales, mahogany decks with the hand hold, ash thwarts in place of seats, no seats, oval ash finish rails, and a keel. It was built between June, 1941 and January, 1942. The original exterior paint color was aluminum. It shipped on May 25th, 1942 to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the thumbnail image attached below. This scan and several hundred thousand more 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.
The design that you described sounds like the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design04.gif which was known as the design number four. This model was not listed in the catalogs and appears to have been built on the same form as the fifty pound model. Can you supply a good picture of the deck to show at http://dragonflycanoe.com/wood-canoe-identification-guide/features-decks/ for others? Please reply here if you have any other questions. Thanks,
Benson
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the thumbnail image attached below. This scan and several hundred thousand more 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.
The design that you described sounds like the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design04.gif which was known as the design number four. This model was not listed in the catalogs and appears to have been built on the same form as the fifty pound model. Can you supply a good picture of the deck to show at http://dragonflycanoe.com/wood-canoe-identification-guide/features-decks/ for others? Please reply here if you have any other questions. Thanks,
Benson
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Thank you so much for the information. We used to live in Oconomowoc, WI and Indian Mound was a boy scout camp on silver lake in Oconomowoc.
We found the canoe at a garage sale 22 years ago but the canoe was in two pieces. According to the previous owner a small hole gradually got
bigger and someone actually stepped through the canoe and by the time we found it the canoe was in two pieces. We took it home and my husband
tried to restore it but ultimately it was too big of job so he salvaged the canoe half and made a bookshelf which has been in our home for the past 20 years.
We have loved it but always had questions regarding the make of the canoe. I have inserted a photo of the canoe and red and blue pattern. Again thank you
so much for the information.
We found the canoe at a garage sale 22 years ago but the canoe was in two pieces. According to the previous owner a small hole gradually got
bigger and someone actually stepped through the canoe and by the time we found it the canoe was in two pieces. We took it home and my husband
tried to restore it but ultimately it was too big of job so he salvaged the canoe half and made a bookshelf which has been in our home for the past 20 years.
We have loved it but always had questions regarding the make of the canoe. I have inserted a photo of the canoe and red and blue pattern. Again thank you
so much for the information.
