Old Town Serial # 89590 17
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Tom,
Old Town serial number 89590 was a 17-foot CS (or common sense) grade Charles River canoe built in 1926 and shipped to Abercrombie and Fitch in New York City. It had open spruce gunwales, and oak (apparently, it could also be ash in a stretch) decks, thwarts and seats. It had a keel and was originally dark green.
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.
This sounds like your boat. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Norm
Old Town serial number 89590 was a 17-foot CS (or common sense) grade Charles River canoe built in 1926 and shipped to Abercrombie and Fitch in New York City. It had open spruce gunwales, and oak (apparently, it could also be ash in a stretch) decks, thwarts and seats. It had a keel and was originally dark green.
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.
This sounds like your boat. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Norm
