Old Town SREA 16 foot Ser # 140054 Identification Help
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The Old Town boat with serial number 140054 is a 16 foot long, AA (or top) grade, All Wood Oceanboat with a 72 inch deck, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between May and August, 1944. The original exterior paint colors were white on the sides and tropical red on the bottom of the hull. It shipped on August 10th, 1944 to Amesbury, Mass. A scanned copy of this build record can be found by following the link behind the attached thumbnail image 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/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.
The Oceanboat model was listed in the catalogs from 1931 to 1956. Some other pictures of similar boats and the description from the 1947 catalog are shown at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?11143 here. More pictures like this and other Old Town boats are available from http://store.wcha.org/The-Complete-Old-Town-Canoe-Company-Catalog-Collection-CD-ROM.html in the Old Town Catalog Collection.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer. 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/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.
The Oceanboat model was listed in the catalogs from 1931 to 1956. Some other pictures of similar boats and the description from the 1947 catalog are shown at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?11143 here. More pictures like this and other Old Town boats are available from http://store.wcha.org/The-Complete-Old-Town-Canoe-Company-Catalog-Collection-CD-ROM.html in the Old Town Catalog Collection.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
