charles b williston
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my dad was given this canoe in the 1950's. serial number is 147033 -16. I would appreciate any information you may have.
old town 147033 -16
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Greg Nolan
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 147033 is a 15 foot long, CS (common sense or standard) grade fifty pound model with Maine or eastern white cedar planking, open spruce gunwales with the wood not specified for seats, decks and thwarts; it was equipped with half ribs and a keel. It was built in 1946-47, getting its second coat of varnish on January 27, 1947. There was apparently some construction mishap, because there is an entry that a new deck was installed on January 17, 1947, the day after it was railed. The original exterior paint color was dark green . It was shipped to Bangor Maine on March 12, 1947. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached 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 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. Take another look at your serial number, which should be stamped into both stems -- they are often not clear. And measure your canoe. If it is actually 15 feet long, we probably have the right build record here, but if it is 16 feet long, we should be looking at a different number.
Greg Nolan
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 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. Take another look at your serial number, which should be stamped into both stems -- they are often not clear. And measure your canoe. If it is actually 15 feet long, we probably have the right build record here, but if it is 16 feet long, we should be looking at a different number.
Greg Nolan
