Serial Number request
- Thread starter Pete Young
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Welcome and congratulations on your purchase. The Old Town canoe with serial number 71298 is a 16 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model that was shipped as an Otca model. It had red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, twenty inch maple decks, maple thwarts, maple seats, and a keel. It was built between April and May, 1922. The original exterior paint color was orange. It shipped on June 1st, 1922 to Rochester, New York.
This scan and several hundred thousand more 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/catalogs/old-town/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-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Most of the restorers listed at http://www.wcha.org/builders-and-suppliers-directory can provide outwales. These don't ship easily so a local provider will probably be your best option. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
This scan and several hundred thousand more 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/catalogs/old-town/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-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Most of the restorers listed at http://www.wcha.org/builders-and-suppliers-directory can provide outwales. These don't ship easily so a local provider will probably be your best option. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
Greg Nolan
enthusiast
The Old Town canoe with serial number 71298 is shown as 16 feet long, CS (common sense or standard) grade, model HW as Otca, with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, 20” maple decks, maple seats, and thwarts, and equipped with a keel. The canoe was built between April an May 1922. The original exterior paint was orange (oil in japan). It was shipped to Rochester, New York on June 1, 1922. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.
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/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe.
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-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.As to where to get gunwales made, go to our home page and check the Builders and Suppliers directory for a builder in your area.
When considering any restoration work, whether you plan to do it yourself or to hire a professional, there are three good sources of information about canoe restoration that you would do well to get, or at least look at, before making any decision about how to repair or restore your canoe:
The Wood and Canvas Canoe: A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance by Rollin Thurlow and Jerry Stelmok
Building the Maine Guide Canoe by Jerry Stelmok
This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, by Mike Elliott
The first is often called the "bible" of canoe repair, restoration, and maintenance; the second is an excellent study of the wooden/canvas canoe and its construction. The third is the most recently published and has been well received.
Of course, you can always ask questions here on the forums. Our members have a great deal of information, based on their experience, about repari and restoration of canoes.
You might also want to look at The Old Town Canoe Company by Susan Audette and David Baker, a great history of the Old Town company and its canoes.
These books are all available from the WCHA store, are often on eBay, or from Amazon.
Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Greg
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/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe.
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-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.As to where to get gunwales made, go to our home page and check the Builders and Suppliers directory for a builder in your area.
When considering any restoration work, whether you plan to do it yourself or to hire a professional, there are three good sources of information about canoe restoration that you would do well to get, or at least look at, before making any decision about how to repair or restore your canoe:
The Wood and Canvas Canoe: A Complete Guide to its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance by Rollin Thurlow and Jerry Stelmok
Building the Maine Guide Canoe by Jerry Stelmok
This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, by Mike Elliott
The first is often called the "bible" of canoe repair, restoration, and maintenance; the second is an excellent study of the wooden/canvas canoe and its construction. The third is the most recently published and has been well received.
Of course, you can always ask questions here on the forums. Our members have a great deal of information, based on their experience, about repari and restoration of canoes.
You might also want to look at The Old Town Canoe Company by Susan Audette and David Baker, a great history of the Old Town company and its canoes.
These books are all available from the WCHA store, are often on eBay, or from Amazon.
Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Greg
Pete Young
New Member
Thanks so much! By any chance do you have a picture of a canoe with this color?
No, but the color charts at http://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?threads/7345/ and http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/thumbnal.html may help. My usual advice is to just pick a shade that you like. Princeton Orange (PMS 158) has been a popular one over the years. The other option is to do some paint archeology on your canoe to see if you can find some original paint under the rails or somewhere else that didn't get much exposure to the sun. Good luck,
Benson
