Revised serial # for OT 18

[George F.]

Hi Benson;
After reading your description of the canoe, I knew I must have had the serial number wrong. I went back and looked under better light and saw my mistake. The serial number is 140567 18. Could you please provide history on this Old Town canoe? Sorry for the wild goose chase!

 

[smallboatshop]

Hi,

I am replying for Benson who is probably very busy at the Annual Assembly.

Your canoe is an 18' Guide model (no grade was designated on the build record). The has Western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, half ribs and a keel. It was constructed in 1944 painted dark green and sold to a hardware store in Midlena Mich.

The scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image. 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 and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.

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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's
length.

Dan

Linda Whiting ~ Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com