serial number help

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I have a restored Old town and I would like to know the model and year built- SN# 87737-17. can you please let me know.
 
Old Town serial number 87737 17 was a 17-foot CS (or common sense quality) OTCA with open spruce gunwales and oak decks, thwarts and seats. It had a keel and a floor rack. Its original color was brilliant green with a 1/2 inch gold stripe. The canoe was started in 1925 and shipped in 1927 to Detroit.

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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