John Stolecki
New Member
Hello I am just finishing a new canvas job on what I think is a !6" Old Town Guide, serial #178076 16.
Can you help with its history?
Can you help with its history?
Old Town serial number
- Thread starter John Stolecki
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Welcome and congratulations, the Old Town with serial number 178076 is a 16 foot long, Guide model with wide planking, half ribs, and no keel. It was built between April and June, 1967. The exterior paint color was G. S. (Guide's Special) green. It shipped on June 16th, 1967 to Avon, Connecticut. A scan showing this build record can be found 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. I hope that you will donate, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.
It is 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.
Benson
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 donate, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.
It is 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.
Benson
John Stolecki
New Member
Thank You Benson for your quick response. As a brand new member I am excited to have found this site. I purchased the canoe in Greenville Maine in the late 70s from the Cochrane family who were guides on the Allagash. She saw much use in the Moosehead Lake region with my family until her canvas began to go bad and duct tape got us thru the last trip. It languished in the barn for 30 years before I got to the repair. I never paddled the Allagash but plan to complete that now in retirement. Thanks again, John
Greg Nolan
enthusiast
Chip Cochrane, a Master Maine Guide, is one of the principals of Allagash Canoe Trips in Greenville, Maine -- an outfit in business since 1953, started by his father Warren and grandfather Herb -- the people you bought the canoe from? Check out their website -- https://www.allagashcanoetrips.com/.
John Stolecki
New Member
Greg Yes this is the family. I was not close to Warren and Chip when I lived in Greenville but being in Maine and a skier I have always heard the name and it has kept the idea in my head that I needed to get back to that canoe. I realized today given this info that if and when I paddle the Allagash it will be over 50 since this canoe has returned to the waters it was conceived for! Cannot wait, thanks for the heads up, John
