OT serial #135835. Thanks

[Ranger1]

First time user, looking for any info on Old Town serial #135835 16' canoe? Thanks

 

[Greg Nolan]

The Old Town canoe with serial number 135835 is shown as 16 feet long, CS(common sense or standard) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, seats, and thwarts, fitted with a keel and sponsons and equipped with a painter ring in stem. The canoe was built in 1942. The original exterior paint color was light Yale blue. At sometime in the finishing schedule, it got some orange shellac, but the dates are illegible, so it is hard to determine when this was applied – I would guess before the varnish as a sealer. It was shipped to Chicago, Illinois on February 2, 1943. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.

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

 

[Ranger1]

Thanks!

The Old Town canoe with serial number 135835 is shown as 16 feet long, CS(common sense or standard) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, seats, and thwarts, fitted with a keel and sponsons and equipped with a painter ring in stem. The canoe was built in 1942. The original exterior paint color was light Yale blue. At sometime in the finishing schedule, it got some orange shellac, but the dates are illegible, so it is hard to determine when this was applied – I would guess before the varnish as a sealer. It was shipped to Chicago, Illinois on February 2, 1943. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.

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

Thanks for the quick turn around Greg, the description does match the boat. Ranger1