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Old Town canoe #166542 was a 15-foot, CS (or common sense) grade 50-pounder that was built in 1957 and shipped to Chicago. It had a keel and was painted bright (?) red.
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.
Norm
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.
Norm
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Looks like "bright" to me too...
With your canoe having been stored half its life, there may still be some of the original color somewhere on the canvas (if its still the original canvas) that you could have matched-- I believe Kirby's will match any color.
Kathy
With your canoe having been stored half its life, there may still be some of the original color somewhere on the canvas (if its still the original canvas) that you could have matched-- I believe Kirby's will match any color.
Kathy
