Serial No. 15416 16
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Hello Tim,
Old Town 15416 is a 16 foot CS (common sense or middle) grade HW (heavy water) model canoe with red Western cedar planking, CLOSED spruce gunwales, ash decks/thwarts/seats and a keel. Originally it was auto gray. There's a notation at the bottom of the record that's hard to read, but these sorts of things indicate something different was done to the canoe and maybe someone will know what that was. Anyway, your canoe (if this is the correct record) has 1-1# (one, one pound) 5/5 [something] ?/2 [something]. It was shipped somewhere on June 14, 1911. So, the ol' girl just turned 100.
The canoe's destination can be a factor in deciding if this is the correct record, but I couldn't read that part. Old Town may be able to pull the original for you and get a better scan.
Image of 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 will join or renew your membership to 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 join.
Kathy
Old Town 15416 is a 16 foot CS (common sense or middle) grade HW (heavy water) model canoe with red Western cedar planking, CLOSED spruce gunwales, ash decks/thwarts/seats and a keel. Originally it was auto gray. There's a notation at the bottom of the record that's hard to read, but these sorts of things indicate something different was done to the canoe and maybe someone will know what that was. Anyway, your canoe (if this is the correct record) has 1-1# (one, one pound) 5/5 [something] ?/2 [something]. It was shipped somewhere on June 14, 1911. So, the ol' girl just turned 100.
The canoe's destination can be a factor in deciding if this is the correct record, but I couldn't read that part. Old Town may be able to pull the original for you and get a better scan.
Image of 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 will join or renew your membership to 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 join.
Kathy
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Thank you very much! That's fantastic info.
The canoe is here in Seattle, where the grandson of the former owner brought it here in hopes of getting it restored. This is what he told me about the canoe:
It's great to have a bit of info to relay back to him, too.
Below, before I got her, she was stored upside down in a backyard.
Since then, I've peeled off the remnants of a previous restoration from the 1960s, which included a polyester resin/woven mat covering.
I now plan to restore her back to as original specs as I can.
The canoe is here in Seattle, where the grandson of the former owner brought it here in hopes of getting it restored. This is what he told me about the canoe:
It's great to have a bit of info to relay back to him, too.
Below, before I got her, she was stored upside down in a backyard.
Since then, I've peeled off the remnants of a previous restoration from the 1960s, which included a polyester resin/woven mat covering.
I now plan to restore her back to as original specs as I can.
Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Wonderful history. Old boats and the connections they have made are sheer poetry.
