Lew's Canoes
Canoe Builder
Please post the Build Record for OT #138359. Should be a 16 foot, AA grade something or other, with sponsons. Thanks, Lew
OT Serial Number Search Request
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Greg Nolan
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Lew --
The Old Town canoe with serial number 138359 is shown as 16 feet long, AA (top) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, seats, and thwarts, and fitted with a keel, floor rack, and sponsons. It was also equipped with polished brass rowlocks (with some undecipherable letters related to the rowlocks). The canoe was built in 1943. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It was shipped to Jamestown, New York on May 22, 1944. 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. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Greg
The Old Town canoe with serial number 138359 is shown as 16 feet long, AA (top) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, seats, and thwarts, and fitted with a keel, floor rack, and sponsons. It was also equipped with polished brass rowlocks (with some undecipherable letters related to the rowlocks). The canoe was built in 1943. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It was shipped to Jamestown, New York on May 22, 1944. 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. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Greg
