serial # 90020
- Thread starter Kono
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Kono,
Old Town number 90020 was a 17-foot CS (or common sense) grade HW model built in 1926 and shipped to Minocqua, Wisconsin. It had open spruce gunwales and oak decks, thwarts and seats, plus a keel. The original color was dark green with a name that I can't quite read painted in yellow on the right bow.
It had a secondary record indicating that it may have been returned for repairs in 1984 by an owner in Phillips, Wisconsin.
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.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
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.
Norm
Old Town number 90020 was a 17-foot CS (or common sense) grade HW model built in 1926 and shipped to Minocqua, Wisconsin. It had open spruce gunwales and oak decks, thwarts and seats, plus a keel. The original color was dark green with a name that I can't quite read painted in yellow on the right bow.
It had a secondary record indicating that it may have been returned for repairs in 1984 by an owner in Phillips, Wisconsin.
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.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
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.
Norm
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Kono,
I doubt that Old Town will know. The only records they have are these build records that have been digitally copied for the WCHA. These exist in dozens of wooden boxes in Old Town, Maine, at the store. Other than these build records, they probably don't have anything else. You might try writing to the former owner to see if the family still lives at that address.
Norm
I doubt that Old Town will know. The only records they have are these build records that have been digitally copied for the WCHA. These exist in dozens of wooden boxes in Old Town, Maine, at the store. Other than these build records, they probably don't have anything else. You might try writing to the former owner to see if the family still lives at that address.
Norm
The notation on the back of the card from that era usually just indicates that someone (usually a previous owner) submitted a serial number inquiry. It is not likely that Old Town did any actual work to the canoe in '84.
