Number look up

JClearwater

Wooden Canoes are in the Blood
I picked up an Old Town Otca. Oh "Great Keeper of the Numbers" maybe you could look it up for me. 165418 - 16. Should be a 16' AA grade with half ribs and floor rack.

Thanks,
Jim
 
The Old Town canoe with serial number 165418 is a 16 foot long, AA (or top) grade, Yankee model that shipped as an Otca. It had twenty inch decks, half ribs and a keel. It was built between August and September, 1956. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on September 14th, 1956 to Coquille, Oregon. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

This scan and several hundred thousand more were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. 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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Benson,

Thank you very much. That description fits exactly. This is a one family canoe that was purchased in Oregon and eventually came back with the family to the Hudson Valley. It is in very nice shape.

See you at Assembly.

Jim
 
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