OT Otca search please

charvey

Enthusiastic about Wooden Canoes
I was passed along some photos of an Otca. The number is I was told was 4362 17, which I know isn’t right. Probably is 14362 17 makes more sense. Much appreciated.
 
Good morning, #14362 17 is a 17' CS (middle or standard grade) Otca with Western red cedar planking, open, spruce gunwales, ash decks, thwarts and seat frames. It was equipped with a keel and sponsons, painted Dark Green and shipped to St, Louis in 1910.

The scan of this record is attached -- click on it to get a larger image. 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/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.

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. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's length.

Dan

Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com
 

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