Old Town # 127439 18

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Another family canoe with great sentimental value, I might add... is #127439 -18.

I am sure this is going to bring out some more interest in our old canoes and certainly bring attention to the WCHA !!

Thank you again, tc
NW Lower Michigan
 
Hello TC--

Your second family canoe, Old Town 127439, is an 18 foot CS (common sense or middle) grade Guide model canoe that was completed April to July of 1939. It has open spruce gunwales and a keel and was originally painted bright red. It was shipped to The Franklin General Store, Franklin, NJ, on July 14, 1939. There's a notation on the reverse regarding a letter dated August 26, 1939 from the Franklin General Store, complaining about peeled paint, which Old Town would have attended to.

Scans of this record is attached below.

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. Image of the scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image.

This scan and several hundred thousand others 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 athttp://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.



More information on the Old Town Company can be found in Sue Audette's book, "Old Town, Our First Hundred Years", which is available through the WCHA store and most booksellers, eBay, Amazon, and public libraries.

Kathy
 

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I hope you know there's an active Lower Michigan Chapter of the WCHA. You may want to get in touch with them!

Michigan Chapter
Russ Hicks
517-663-3882
Email: Ikanoe2@core.com

Download latest Newsletter for this chapter by clicking on the chapters link on the main page of this website
There's also a Facebook Page for the Michigan Chapter, if you're involved in Facebook
 
Welcome to the WCHA.

If you are planning to restore your canoes (or have them restored) in addition to asking questions here, there are two good sources of information about canoe restoration that you would do well to get, or at least look at -- "The Wood and Canvas Canoe: A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance" by Rollin Thurlow and Jerry Stelmok, and/or "Building the Maine Guide Canoe" by Jerry Stelmok.

The first is often called the "bible" of canoe repair, restoration, and maintenance; the second is an excellent study of the wooden/canvas canoe and its construction. The information in these books can help you sort out what should be done, and how to go about doing it, or having it done.

Again, welcome.

Greg
 
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