Was visiting friends on Lake Sebago who showed me their Old Town Canoe. We think the serial number is 45241. They believe it was bought by either Chester Jones or Harry Lee Jones. I would like to provide them with the history of this boat if the serial number match can be found.
Old Town. 45241
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Restorers
45241-16
This canoe is a 16' CS grade (middle grade) Livery Model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, thwarts, and seat frames. It was equipped with a keel, outside stems and a floor rack, bang plate on keel,and painter ring. It was painted dark green with "design to sketch lettered G H B on bows". It was built in 1916 and sold to Miss Beals of Russell, Mass. in 1918.
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 at http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.
Dan
Linda Whiting ~ Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
This canoe is a 16' CS grade (middle grade) Livery Model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, thwarts, and seat frames. It was equipped with a keel, outside stems and a floor rack, bang plate on keel,and painter ring. It was painted dark green with "design to sketch lettered G H B on bows". It was built in 1916 and sold to Miss Beals of Russell, Mass. in 1918.
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 at http://www.wcha.org/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.
Dan
Linda Whiting ~ Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
