Old Town Serial Number Lookup

[mousco]

I'm looking into purchasing a used OTC boat with the serial number 210838. The seller doesn't have any information about the boat so I'm hoping the great group here can help me with an old build record. According to the seller it's a yellow tripper and based on the information I've read elsewhere about the serial numbers likely an early 80s. Anything I can learn would be helpful.

Thanks!

 

[Benson Gray]

Welcome, the Old Town canoe with serial number 210838 is a 17 foot long Chipewyan Tripper model with aluminum inserts in the rails that weighed 78 pounds. It was built in November, 1975. The original exterior color was yellow. It shipped on March 31st, 1976 to Weymouth, Massachusetts. The back side of the card shows that the warranty card was returned in April, 1976 from Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. A scan showing this build record can be found below.

This scan and several hundred thousand more 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/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will donate, join, or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson

 

[mousco]

Thank you very much Benson. That is indeed the boat. Any idea what material this boat would have been made out of?

 

[Benson Gray]

The Chipewyan models were made of an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (or ABS) plastic. The page at the link below has more details about this material. Uniroyal called it Royalex and Old Town called it Oltonar. Let me know if this doesn't answer your question.

Benson

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene - Wikipedia

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