Old Town 61255 17

The Old Town canoe with serial number 61255 is shown as 17 feet long, CS (common sense or standard) grade, Otca model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, seats, and thwarts, and equipped with a keel. The canoe was built between May and November 1920. The original exterior paint was royal blue with a 2” white stripe. It was shipped to Philadelphia, Pannsylvania on December 10, 1920. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.

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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. 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.

Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Greg
 
Thanks Greg - When I purchased it, I was told it was a 16' 1934:) Did the 1920 model have a deck with combing or was this possibly added at some restoration point from 1920 until now?
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If I may ask yet another question -- There is a center thwart not attached (see photo above) but the nuts are wing nuts. Was it common to add a center thwart? What about a carrying yoke?
thanks
joe
 
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