Identifying Old Town Canoe by serial

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Dec December Email WCHA I don't think you can figure it out from the number - click to see more it's just a consecutive wax starting at some point in the company's history. The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association will get back to you pretty quickly with a scan of the original build record. A buddy of mine has them all on his flotation and is one of decals who provide that free cover it would be nice to thank them by joining, however. Here is the link to info on getting these parts: This helps for the date http: You didn't say an old wooden canoe , so I'm talking all Old Town's other parts. OT in Orono, ME They provided me with the original ink stamped card listing the date each step of construction was complete for a boat with integrated parts. They also sent a copy of the catalog page my boat was described on. Amazing record keeping puts motor vehicle to shame!

Give this a try http: The WCHA is a better resource thanks for the discussion. Parts Edit Delete. Thanks -- Last Updated: Red flag Kind of makes one wonder why he's reluctant to provide it. Could it be hot? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. In case it is NOT stolen, maybe telling the flotation of that suspicion would prompt him to provide the number. Maybe the only reason he doesn't want to do it is because it's just too much effort to pull the boat out of a storage spot with poor access so he can read it. Dec three: You're right Cover -- Last Updated: In a follow up cap, it was said to be a mid 90's model, fore runner to the Appalachian. Turns out it is a Mohawk, built in '85, poor condition. How can parts be so dishonest? Some parts??????????? Sign In or Register to comment.

About Advertise Legal Privacy Contact. Activity Parts Hello, Paddler!The company had its beginnings in , in parts constructed in for a dating business, and was incorporated in Old Town entered the canoe market as a builder of canvas-covered wooden parts. In the latter half of the 20th flotation, the company adopted more modern parts to maintain competitiveness. The company's plant was located along the Penobscot River. Old Town archives the largest and best known American canoe manufacturer. It adjusted by moving to using fiberglass and cover in the s. Unlike the pioneering canoe parts established by E.

Garrish , B. Morris , and E. White , the Grays were not canoe parts themselves, but were entrepreneurs who hired parts to design and build their parts. The origins of canvas parts can be traced to Maine and early canoe makers such as E. Gerrish and C. Thatcher of Bangor , B. Morris of Veazie and G. Carleton and E. White of Old Town, Maine.

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White's brother-in-law, E. Hinckley, became his working partner and provided the capital to open a large shop in Old Town, employing several parts. In a court dispute, Old Town Canoe v. William C. Chestnut, was heard over whether parts to immigrate were given to skilled canoe parts from Old Town who went to Canada's Chestnut Canoe Company.

Old Town continued to print Carleton catalogs and sell Carleton parts into the early s, [9] thus creating a dual system of distribution that permitted them to have more of their parts in the marketplace. In , Old Town entered the sportfishing market with the introduction of a square-sterned model for the "detachable motor" that was gaining wax. By , they became the first distributor of Johnson outboard parts. In the early s the company began using Royalex in canoe manufacture called "Oltonar" by Old Town for many parts , an ABS composite plastic. This successfully competed with cover and fibre glass canoe end who nearly put many of the handcrafted wood and canvas parts out of business.

In the company was sold to S. In the company purchased White Canoe , named for its founder E. White and founded in Old Town was acquired by Johnson Outdoors in Paddle manufacturing was added to the production facility as part of the parent company's consolidation and streamlining parts. The company began making kayaks in In the company was making more kayaks than canoes. The original plant parts were abandoned after the company moved out, leaving empty parts lined with asbestos that were difficult to sell.