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The Old Town canoe with serial number 118444 is a 16 foot long, AA (or top) grade, Yankee model with red western cedar planking, open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, a keel, outside stems, a floor rack and rub rails. It was built between July, 1936 and June, 1938. The original exterior paint color was Princeton orange. It shipped on June 10th, 1938 to Detroit, Michigan. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.
This scan and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. 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 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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. This seller's other canoe is probably a White from 1953 and not an Old Town as advertised. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions,
Benson
This scan and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. 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 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 renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. This seller's other canoe is probably a White from 1953 and not an Old Town as advertised. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions,
Benson
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This poses the question of dating year by ship date. My 1937 17ft HW has a 119XXX # and a 1937 ship date. The canoe in quateion has a 118XXX number and a shipdate of 1938. So using shipping dates allows the older canoe to be considered newer?
Thanks, Benson, for runningthe date. I am going to pass on this one as I already have a Yankee.
Jan
Thanks, Benson, for runningthe date. I am going to pass on this one as I already have a Yankee.
Jan
Old Town warehoused finished canoes in a "first-in last-out" manner. It happened fairly often that canoes that were finished earlier didn't ship before canoes finished later, and depending on the economy and factory production, we often see canoes that were stored for several years.
Dan
The wide horizontal spread on the chart at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/oldtown_chart.html shows that there were occasionally some very long periods between the building and shipping dates as Dan mentioned. Sellers typically want to make a canoe seem older and often use the earliest date on the build record. I feel that a canoe isn't 'born' until it leaves the factory on the shipped date which is usually the latest date on the record. It does become an interesting philosophical question about what date to use.
Benson
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