Peter Ostlind
Curious about Wooden Canoes
Looking for information on this 15' canoe.
Old Town 13924
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 13924 is a 15 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model with white Maine cedar planking, closed spruce gunwales, ash decks, spruce thwarts, spruce finish (outside) rails, a keel, a heavy spruce setting pole with pick, two maple paddles, a four inch thwart - bored (presumably with a hole in the center for a mast), and a mast step - unbored. It was built between March and April, 1910. The original exterior paint color was D. (dead) Grass. It shipped on April 12th, 1910 to Boston, Mass. 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 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 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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. It would be great if you could post a few pictures of this canoe, especially some side views, since it may be a low end version. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions,
Benson
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 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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. It would be great if you could post a few pictures of this canoe, especially some side views, since it may be a low end version. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions,
Benson
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Peter Ostlind
Curious about Wooden Canoes
Benson,
Thanks for your efforts in supplying this information. On the build record line for length at the end there are the letters "Ex L". Do you know what these might signify? Someone suggested to me that they indicate 'extra light'. Though I'm not sure just what that would mean.
Thanks,
Pete
Thanks for your efforts in supplying this information. On the build record line for length at the end there are the letters "Ex L". Do you know what these might signify? Someone suggested to me that they indicate 'extra light'. Though I'm not sure just what that would mean.
Thanks,
Pete
This was not a common notation so it is not clear what it was intended to signify. If you have an extra light canoe than the planking may be 1/8 inches thick and the ribs may be 1/4 inches thick as described in the light weight fifty pound model's information below. The standard weight canoes were built with slightly thicker material as described at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/specific.gif for example. How thick are the ribs and planking on yours?
Benson
