Old Town? 113945 16
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 113945 is a 16 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, and a keel. It was built between April and November, 1934. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on May 11th, 1935 to Merrill, Wisconsin. 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
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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Feathers
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It matches exactly, and it didn't wander at all during all these years. Your time and help is so much appreciated. It is much older than I thought.
Oh, and I don't need to join or renew- my membership is current. But when it's time to renew. I shall.
Thanks again
Oh, and I don't need to join or renew- my membership is current. But when it's time to renew. I shall.
Thanks again
Dave Osborn
LIFE MEMBER
Tim,
Saw this on CL. Nice score!! Cherry picked it out of my back yard.....! Kidding...LOL your back yard, too.
The Shell Lake Snipe looked good, too!
Let me know if I can help with restoration.
May have told you....once you get the disease, it can become never ending.
It's only ruined one of two of my marriages.....I'm batting .500.
Hope you fair better!
Saw this on CL. Nice score!! Cherry picked it out of my back yard.....! Kidding...LOL your back yard, too.
The Shell Lake Snipe looked good, too!
Let me know if I can help with restoration.
May have told you....once you get the disease, it can become never ending.
It's only ruined one of two of my marriages.....I'm batting .500.
Hope you fair better!
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Feathers
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Dave,
I want to have a project. It's enjoyable to paddle the Meramec, but I can't help but want to have the satisfaction of paddling something I worked on myself.
I saw it on CL Saturday. Let it be, because I know I know very little about how to restore one (you were supposed to swoop in there and scoop it up). This morning at 10AM I thought, "We should just go look at it if it's still there". It was. It was under a shaded overhang and covered with dirt. I don't know what I'm doing but I thought it looked pretty good as far as having potential. And I thought I couldn't get hurt too bad with the price. I have learned enough to suspect it was an Old Town but I had no clue as to what the age might be.
Now that it's home and I used the air compressor and shop vac to take out the mouse nests and decades of dirt there are several cracked ribs. There is rot on the ends where they'd touch the ground when sitting upside down. However, I don't think it has been fiber glassed like the ad said. I think it's just about 10 layers of paint. If it has been glassed I think it was over the canvas. It might even be the original canvas as I can see the dark green in the few spots that the paint has peeled back enough layers to get to the canvas. I think it's pretty restorable but maybe most folks would have walked away?
I suspect there is no way I could restore the canoe myself without wrecking it. I think I will start with trying to get the old canvas off but after that, hmmmmmm. LOL. I would like to get it looking good and functional- but keep it as canoe you could paddle anywhere anytime without worrying about it. But I will need help getting it to that point, so I will likely be talking to you.
PS. I think the marriage is OK. She helped check out, load, and tie off the canoe in shorts despite swarms of horseflies. And I've been this hard to live with for almost 28 years now...
Dave Osborn
LIFE MEMBER
Bring it up sometime, Tim.....
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Dave, sent email to the address listed here.
