Old Town Serial Number Request
- Thread starter jrkloppe
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smallboatshop
Restorers
Hi Jack,
Your brother bought a 7 1/2 foot AA grade (top grade) dinghy or yacht tender, with western cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, a keel, outside stem and floor rack. It was built 1929-30, painted dark green and sold to a company in Long Island City, NY.
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.
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.
Dan
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
Your brother bought a 7 1/2 foot AA grade (top grade) dinghy or yacht tender, with western cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, a keel, outside stem and floor rack. It was built 1929-30, painted dark green and sold to a company in Long Island City, NY.
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.
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.
Dan
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
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thaks, number mustg be wrong
Hi Dan,
Thank you. Alas, the number must be wrong. My brother's boat is surely an Old Town canoe, maybe a Trapper. He reads the number as 102970-15, so he must be getting one of those first six digits wrong. I'll try and see it for myself. Any idea on which digits get misinterpreted the most?
Cheers,
Jack
Hi Dan,
Thank you. Alas, the number must be wrong. My brother's boat is surely an Old Town canoe, maybe a Trapper. He reads the number as 102970-15, so he must be getting one of those first six digits wrong. I'll try and see it for myself. Any idea on which digits get misinterpreted the most?
Cheers,
Jack
smallboatshop
Restorers
Hi Jack,
A good way for seeing the serial # is to take a photo of it. If you do and still aren't sure then post it here. There are some forum members who are real sleuths in solving number mysteries.
Dan
A good way for seeing the serial # is to take a photo of it. If you do and still aren't sure then post it here. There are some forum members who are real sleuths in solving number mysteries.
Dan
Yes, see http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?10975 for more details. Good luck with the restoration,
Benson
Benson
