hmmm...
Hi Fred--
Your canoe's build record has something on it I haven't seen before and can only guess about, but probably others here may know...
Old Town 147831 is a 16 foot, CS grade Otca with spruce planking... and it's the spruce planking I haven't run across in looking up build records. Maybe they had a hard time getting cedar in the years directly following WWII... that's just a guess.
To continue (now that I've already spilled the beans re your canoe's birth-era), the canoe has open spruce gunwales, was fitted with a keel and painted dark green before being shipped to Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, PA on May 6, 1947.
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