![]() The Old Town, Carleton, and Kennebec canoes with serial number 12801 are all 17 feet long. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. ![]() ![]() It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. See to learn more about the WCHA and to join. I hope that you will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at if you want more details. This scan and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. ![]() A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below. It was shipped to Plattsburgh, New York on May 21, 1910. Also ordered were two number 2 spruce paddles (5’ and 5’6” in length) and a slat seat back. The original exterior was painted dark blue, with a gold strip and something else that I cannot decipher. It was built between November 1909 and April 1910. The Old Town canoe with serial number 12801 is a 17 foot long, CS (common sense or standard) grade HW (hravy wateer) model with red western cedar planking, spruce gunwales and ash decks, seats, and thwarts, spruce finish rails, outside stems and equipped with a keel.
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