Old Racine Canoe?

[nimrod]

I am looking at a canoe on Craigslist with serial number that is stamped into the wood like this: 5602
15

Does anybody have any idea about this canoe? Thanks.

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Seems like a Racine serial number format... and I think this canoe has shown up here in another discussion and was identified as a RacineWis-- the Chippewa has the short one-lobed deck, which-- as I recall-- is the one on craigslist.

 

[Kathryn Klos]

Here's a link to the other post:

http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?7980-name-that-serial-number....&highlight=racine

 

[nimrod]

Thanks, Kathryn.

 

[nimrod]

Kathryn, is there any way for me to age this canoe knowing this serial number?

 

[Dave Osborn]

With a handle like nimrod, you must be from Watersmeet.....?

 

[Kathryn Klos]

As far as I know, there's no known pattern to RacineWis serial numbers. We have one dating from the early 1920s, and we only know that because it belonged to Denis's former in-laws. There's much Racine information in past issues of "Wooden Canoe". Our Chapter had three at one time... a 15, a 16 and an 18... all of them dark green... it was like a set of the nested Russian dolls. The 15 was in original canvas, which you can tell if rivets are in place in the outwales.

Kathy

 

[nimrod]

Nope, Northern Illinois.

 

[pklonowski]

Where in norhtern Illinois? I'm in Gurnee, and we have other members scattered across the prairies...