Old Town Guide 16 ?
- Thread starter Arnold S
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 105633 is a 16 foot long, GS (Guide Special or utility) grade, HW (Heavy Water) model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, and seats. It was built between March and September, 1930. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on September 9th, 1930 to Harrington, Maine.
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 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 renew.
You may have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. The information at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?791 may help you determine the serial number. The GS grade was listed in the catalogs for the HW model. Can you attach a side view to see if the ends were lowered? Please feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Thanks,
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 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 renew.
You may have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. The information at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?791 may help you determine the serial number. The GS grade was listed in the catalogs for the HW model. Can you attach a side view to see if the ends were lowered? Please feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Thanks,
Benson
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These usually came with a keel but the one on yours may have not come from the factory. Some pictures of the keel and the screw holes on the inside may help resolve this. There doesn't appear to be a notation on the keel line of this build record but it may have just been too light for the scanner to pick up. You could contact customer service group at the factory and they may be able to get you a better scan from the original paper record if you ask nicely and they aren't too busy. Let me know if they aren't able to help you. Good luck with the restoration,
Benson
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