Sorry you missed the Assembly! Hope to meet you at next year's. I'll be able to post the scan tomorrow, but if anyone else with the build records wants to beat me to it, this record is scan #10251 on disk 2. I'm not at my own computer and can't attach the scan from this computer as there's no program to convert the original TIFF file to something our website permits. If the details don't match your canoe, we can try again. If this is the correct record for your canoe, the gunwales should be closed. Old Town didn't use diamond head bolts to secure thwarts and seats until about 1920, so don't expect to see them. It was shipped with two caned backrests.ĭo these facts fit your canoe? An older canoe such as this may have undergone some modifications over the years. The ship-date was left off the build record, but it was probably shipped in April of 1912. It was shipped to Abraham and Foss in Flint, Michigan. It has red Western cedar planking, closed spruce gunwales, ash decks, thwarts, and seat frames and a keel. Old Town 19780 is a 16 foot CS (common sense, or middle) grade HW model canoe that was finished from December 1911 to April 1912.
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