The Old Town canoe with serial number 103925 is a 16 foot long, AA (top) grade H.W. (heavy Water) model with red western cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, and equipped with a floor rack, outside stems, sponsons, and keel. It was built between December 1929 and May 1930. The original exterior paint color was dark green . It was shipped to Copley (sic, probably should read Coplay) Pennsylvania on May 15, 1930.. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below. The back of the record indicates that the canoe was damaged in shipment, but instead of being returned, as originally planned, after correspondence and a telephone call, the canoe was kept and a credit memo for $77.88, the estimated cost of repairs, was issued.
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.
Greg Nolan
