Old Town? #167065

[Dangeruss]

Hello, great forum you have here. I have a old wood and canvas canoe I believe to be a 16' Old Town Octa of unknown vintage. It was used at the local Boy Scout camp for many years and we acquired it about 15 years ago and put it in dry storage. We lost the storage space and need to sell to sell it. The wood needs refinished but is in excellent shape, the canvas may need replaced due to cracking and a few small scrapes on the bottom, but is also in overall great shape.

Curious if you can tell me more about it.
serial # 167065 - 16

Thanks for any information you can give!

 

[Benson Gray]

The Old Town canoe with serial number 167065 is a 16 foot long Guide model with thwarts in place of seats and a keel. It was built between January and October, 1958. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped to Olympia, Washington on April 3rd, 1959. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

These scans and several hundred thousand more 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. The messages at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?57 may be helpful and the classifieds at http://classifieds.wcha.org/ are often one of the fastest ways to find a good new home for it. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson