two old town's

Dale,

Old Town number 84723 was a 16-foot CS (or common sense) grade HW model built in 1924 and shipped to some town in Maine. I can't quite read the name. It had open spruce gunwales, and birch decks, thwarts, and seats. It had a keel and was originally dark green.

Old Town number 131085 was a 17-foot CS grade HW model built in 1940-41 and shipped to Chicago, Illinois. It had open spruce gunwales and ash decks, thwarts, and seats. It came with oval finish rails and a keel. The original color was light Yale blue. The build record also notes "P.R. in bow stem."

The scans of these records are attached below-- click to get a larger image. 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 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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