Your thumbnails don't enlarge when I click on them, so I can't compare the build record I came up with, to the one you have.
Old Town 126829 is a 17 foot CS (common sense) grade Otca model, finished between February and May of 1939. It has open spruce gunwales, ash decks, thwarts, and seat frames, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was painted dark green and shipped to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, on May 23, 1939.
Some of the aspects of the build record fit your canoe, and some do not... so, please double check the numbers on both stems. I haven't run into a build record where the length of the canoe was stated wrong on the record or stamped wrong on the hull--- Benson or any of the others who have looked up Old Town records may know more about that. But it's been my experience that when the hull has a "16" and the record says "17", it may be the wrong record.
Additionally, the build record says nothing about sail rigging... although a mast seat and everything else can be purchased after the fact and added to the canoe. This isn't as big a discrepancy as the length.
Otherwise, your canoe appears to be a CS grade Otca with open gunwales and outside stems, painted dark green... this part all fits. Maybe the length on the record is wrong.
Did the canoe spend its life anywhere near Wolfeboro?
Also, I'm not sure if Old Town ever sent out build record information with the canoe. This canoe went to Goodhue and Hawkins Navy Yard, Inc.... seems more likely to me that if OT sent build records with a canoe, it would be some special-order canoe and not one sent to a business. Seems more likely to me that a previous owner of your canoe contacted Old Town for build record information, and received the copy you have... again, double check that number on both stems. A previous owner may have read the numbers wrong and received the wrong record.
The scan of the record I found 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 will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
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It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description don't match your canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
You'll get a lot of help and encouragement in the restoration of your canoe, here in Forums! Plus, there are a couple good books you may be interested in-- Thurlow and Stelmok's "The Wood and Canvas Canoe" and Sue Audette's "Old Town-- Our First 100 Years"... available in the WCHA bookstore or your public library, and elsewhere.
Enjoy!
Kathy