Old Town Serial number request
- Thread starter RobertT2
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Welcome, the Old Town canoe with serial number 20244 is 17 feet long so that isn't a good match. My guess is that you may have the Carleton canoe with this number. It is an 18 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Carleton model that shipped as an Old Town HW model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, oak decks, oak thwarts, oak seats, and a keel. It was built between April, 1931 and July, 1933. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on September 29th, 1933 to Clinton, Connecticut. 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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. Canoes with a family connection are always extra special. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. Canoes with a family connection are always extra special. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
That is the correct information for this canoe. I can't tell if it is addressed to Mr or Mrs, but family lore is that my grandfather, Mr H.C Bates gave it to my grandmother as a gift. That was their cottage, where the canoe was always stored in the garage. Very interesting that it was purchased in 1933, as the hurricane of 1938 almost took the cottage (many nearby were destroyed), but apparently the garage and it's contents must have survived intact.
I was definitely planning to join the WCHA and make a donation regardless of the outcome of this request, but I am sure everyone will be thrilled to have this additional background information
Thanks so much,
Robert
I was definitely planning to join the WCHA and make a donation regardless of the outcome of this request, but I am sure everyone will be thrilled to have this additional background information
Thanks so much,
Robert
