Need some help with this Old Town Guide

Trutta

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Hey gang, I’m new, Rick Riddell here and new to the world of Wood and Canvas old town canoes. I was wondering if I could get some help with this build sheet. I’m not quite sure what the abbreviations stand for, any help would be great!
 

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Welcome, the Old Town with serial number 147766 is an 18 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, guide model with white Maine cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, and a keel. It was built between February and April, 1947. The exterior paint color was G.S. (Guide's Special) green. It shipped on April 19th, 1947 to Corinna, Maine. A scan showing this build record can be found 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/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will donate, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer this description doesn't match. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson



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Interesting! It must have been recanvased at some point, no keel and it’s now red! It’s definitely an Old Town, it has a partial water decal on the deck and serial numbers on the bow and stern 147766 18 Has three thwarts and diamond head bolts. Did other manufacturers use the diamond head bolts?
 
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This is it
 

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I too question my motives to drill holes in the bottom of my perfectly good canoe in order to install a keel. But then again, people jump out of perfectly good airplanes. On the other hand, I've paddled an 18 foot canoe with and without in Quetico. Keel is better by quite a bit for those situations.
 
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