Recently Purchased OT

[Warped Board]

Last week I acquired #124499 that was externally sheathed in fiberglass and painted a ghastly red. Thankfully the interior is beautiful shape! I eagerly await details so that I may begin restoring her. Thanks in advance!

Eric Farmer
Long Lake Boatworks
Nine Mile Falls, WA

 

[MikeCav]

124499 was assigned to a 16' CS (Common Sense) HW Model (Heavy Water) with open spruce gunwales, ash seats, decks and thwarts. It had a keel installed and was painted Fire Red (I don't know if Fire Red is the same as Ghastly Red ). As you can see by the attached build record, the delivery date and location are unreadable, but it was built in February of 1939. I looked at the images of surrounding records to verify that the number is correct, but by the shape of the text blocks for delivery info, it does not appear to be built as part of a large shipment to a single vendor.

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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.