Otca 18'
- Thread starter winola
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Hi Winola,
Old Town 113618 is an 18' CS (common sense or middle) grade Otca model canoe that was completed February-- May of 1934. It has red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seat frames, a keel, sponsons, and originally had #4 design. The canoe was shipped to Andover, NJ, on May 10, 1934. A copy of this record is attached below; click on it to get a larger image.
Scans of approximately 210,000 records were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. Additional information about the project to preserve these records is available at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. Please join WCHA or make a tax deductable contribution so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA, http://www.wcha.org/wcha_video.php to watch a 10 minute video about WCHA and our programs and http://www.wcha.org/join.html to join. If you are already a WCHA member, THANK YOU!
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.
Here is a discussion regarding design #4, which can also be seen on a thirties Otca on the 2011 WCHA calendar, still available through the WCHA store (at a marvelously low reduced price for something with such great pictures):
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=6444&highlight=town+design
Sounds like a nice canoe!
Kathy
Old Town 113618 is an 18' CS (common sense or middle) grade Otca model canoe that was completed February-- May of 1934. It has red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seat frames, a keel, sponsons, and originally had #4 design. The canoe was shipped to Andover, NJ, on May 10, 1934. A copy of this record is attached below; click on it to get a larger image.
Scans of approximately 210,000 records were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. Additional information about the project to preserve these records is available at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. Please join WCHA or make a tax deductable contribution so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA, http://www.wcha.org/wcha_video.php to watch a 10 minute video about WCHA and our programs and http://www.wcha.org/join.html to join. If you are already a WCHA member, THANK YOU!
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.
Here is a discussion regarding design #4, which can also be seen on a thirties Otca on the 2011 WCHA calendar, still available through the WCHA store (at a marvelously low reduced price for something with such great pictures):
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=6444&highlight=town+design
Sounds like a nice canoe!
Kathy
