Old Town Canoe looking for info - #116328 - 16 foot
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 116328 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, ash seats, ash decks, ash thwarts, and a keel. It was built Between October, 1935 and March, 1936. The original exterior paint color was maroon with a white hair line stripe. You may be able to do some paint archeology if you have the original canvas. This may have been similar to the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design40.gif with a thinner stripe which was known as the design number 40. It was shipped on May 28th, 1936 to the New York department store R.H. Macy at the store’s warehouse in Long Island City, NY. 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.
The image corruption problem that Norm mentioned appears to be due to a file transfer problem that probably occurred very early because it is present in nearly all of the copies of this database. I went back to the original scan of this image from October 13th, 1998 and found a good one as shown below. I also contacted customer service at the factory who kindly sent me a color copy of the original paper record. Both of these are attached below.
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.
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 join.
The image corruption problem that Norm mentioned appears to be due to a file transfer problem that probably occurred very early because it is present in nearly all of the copies of this database. I went back to the original scan of this image from October 13th, 1998 and found a good one as shown below. I also contacted customer service at the factory who kindly sent me a color copy of the original paper record. Both of these are attached below.
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.
Benson
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