Bud Tuttle
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I have my grandfather's 16' Old Town canoe cerial# 117986 16
Any info / build sheet would be appreciated.
Any info / build sheet would be appreciated.
Old Town cerial # 117986 16
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Bud,
Old Town #117986 was a 16-foot AA (or top grade) square stern canoe with open mahogany gunwales and mahogany thwarts and seats. It had 48-inch mahogany decks, a keel, outside stems, a floor rack, and sponsons. It was shipped not very far, to East Millinocket, Maine, in 1936. The original color was dark green, but the build record also lists another green shade that may have been a stripe or something. Sounds like a beauty.
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.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
Norm
Old Town #117986 was a 16-foot AA (or top grade) square stern canoe with open mahogany gunwales and mahogany thwarts and seats. It had 48-inch mahogany decks, a keel, outside stems, a floor rack, and sponsons. It was shipped not very far, to East Millinocket, Maine, in 1936. The original color was dark green, but the build record also lists another green shade that may have been a stripe or something. Sounds like a beauty.
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.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
Norm
