Serial number search request
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 211992 is a 17 foot long Chipewyan Tripper model with aluminum inserts in the rails that weighed 79 pounds. It was built in January, 1976. The original exterior color was avocado. It shipped on December 1st, 1976(?) to Bangor, Maine. The back side of this scan shows that it had some exterior vinyl skin breaks inside and out. Scans of both sides of this build record can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below.
These scans 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/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. The 1976 to 1979 Old Town catalogs show this canoe with a single center thwart although it was common for customers and dealers to replace these with a carry yoke. It should also have a hull identification number (HIN) on the starboard stern that begins with XTC and ends with an encoded date. The page at http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm has more information about interpreting a HIN. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
These scans 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/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. The 1976 to 1979 Old Town catalogs show this canoe with a single center thwart although it was common for customers and dealers to replace these with a carry yoke. It should also have a hull identification number (HIN) on the starboard stern that begins with XTC and ends with an encoded date. The page at http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm has more information about interpreting a HIN. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
