1905Gerrish
Loves Old Maine canoes
Folks, looking for build info on serial # 114684. Thanks in advance!
Old Town built info
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 114684 is a 17 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Otca model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, twenty inch birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, a keel, and a floor rack. It was built between November, 1934 and February, 1935. The original exterior paint color was bright yellow with a half inch black stripe and Greek ends edged in gold. This may have looked similar to the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design37.gif which was known as design number 37 but with yellow in place of the red. It shipped on March 8th, 1935 to Danbury, Conn. A scan of 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 as you probably know well. 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 possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Please attach some pictures if the original paint design is still showing. 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 as you probably know well. 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 possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Please attach some pictures if the original paint design is still showing. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
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1905Gerrish
Loves Old Maine canoes
Thanks Benson, saw the canoe today at Jerry Giguere's auction hall in Steep Falls ME. Going off on 4-20.
