Old Town war canoe 109852 25

Old_Paddler

Canoe nut
A friend of mine's Dad has a war canoe that has been gathering dust for 25 years or more and they are getting ready to do something with it.

Can you provide the build sheet?

Thank you,
Russ Padden
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 109852 is a 25 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between May and July, 1931. The original exterior paint color was bright red. It shipped on June 28th, 1931 to Salem, New York. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

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This scan and several hundred thousand more were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. 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 contribute, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to renew.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe, although that seems unlikely in this case. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Thanks,

Benson
 
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