Old Town Canoe Serial Number Search

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  1. The Carleton Canoe Company of Old Town, Maine was one of the earliest producers of wood and canvas canoes. Serial Numbers follow the 4 or 5 + 2 digit format. The longer sequence of digits is the serial number and the two-digit portion is the length of the canoe.
  2. I recently purchased an Old Town royalex canoe. I'm trying to find the year of manufacture, serial number, etc. The model is still painted on the side, but I need the serial number to register it.
  3. As parts can change over the years, the best way to ensure you get the correct parts for your canoe is to contact Customer Service directly at 800-343-1555 or at Feedback@oldtowncanoe.com with your serial number.
  1. Old Town Canoe Serial Number Lookup
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  4. Old Town Canoe Build Records

Old Town Canoe Serial Number Lookup

Old Town Canoe Company is a historic maker of canoes in Old Town, Maine. The company had its beginnings in 1898, in buildings constructed in 1890 for a shoe business, and was incorporated in 1901. The company had its beginnings in 1898, in buildings constructed in 1890 for a shoe business, and was incorporated in 1901.

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Its 15ft long it is made out of plastic it does have the Aluminim tube on the bottom. /how-to-install-hdt-physics-extension.html. I have called Pelican, Coleman and Old Town and nothing. The serial number starts with a Q and it is engraved in the rear right outter part of the Canoe. Also the Canoe is Red/Orange is color. Any help would be awesome. I can post pics if needed. Uncovering the serial number on an old wood/canvas canoe can lead to interesting information. Here, Denis and I find numbers on an Old Town hanging in a neighbor's barn, connect it to the original. Call or write to Old Town -- Last Updated: Jul-03-08 3:11 PM EST -- Of all the 'major' canoe manufacturerers commonly discussed here, Old Town is one of the few that are 'commonly' described as being known for answering questions in a timely manner.

Old Town Canoe Serial Number Xtc

  • Call or write to Old Town

    Of all the 'major' canoe manufacturerers commonly discussed here, Old Town is one of the few that are 'commonly' described as being known for answering questions in a timely manner. I bet they will tell you what model boat you have if you tell them the serial number.
    I tend to doubt that it's a fiberglass canoe if it has plastic seats that are molded to the hull. I suspect it's some kind of polyethylene to have that kind of seat construction, but I've been wrong before. Does the boat 'weigh a ton', or is it pretty light? A decent fiberglass boat is MUCH lighter than a polyethylene boat. As a very rough guess, I'd imagine a decent 18-foot fiberglass canoe might weigh 60 to 70 pounds, while a poly boat at that length could easily weigh more than 90.
    Oh, as far as measuring the 'real length', just use a tape measure and figure out the straight-line distance from one end of the hull to the other.

  • WCHA.org
    Check out these guys:
    http://www.wcha.org/
    They can look up serial numbers and/or point you to the right points of contact..
    Jay
  • Wheres the wood?
    There are a couple of WCHA OT gurus and they can get a build record.but a fiberglass boat might be a little out of line.
    Call Old Town.
  • WCHA has OT data
    McCrae found the original bill of sale and a repair record for the Chipewan, and I think he did it at WCHA site. The Chipewan was a 1974 Royalex boat, so WCHA has the records for non-wood boats, too. But there is a limitation. The records stop at some point as you come forward towards present day, so if the boat is too new, WCHA will be of no use. Usually, the year made is two digits in OT serial numbers. If it will help, PM me and I'll go look at my boats and figure out which digits. Either the first two or the last two.
    I agree, though, that the easiest thing to do is call OT, and they can probably tell you what you have.
    ~~Chip
  • It is fiberlass for sure
    It is certainly fiberglass.. unless it's Kevlar.. and I know it isn't that! You can clearly see the woven fberglass cloth on the floor of the canoe. I'd go take some pics, but we are having a wicked thunderstorm now..
    My boss has a Stillwater 16' and this is longer and a bit different in design/look then his. It does have a keel like the Stillwater though.
  • and Benson Gray is
    going soon to the WCHA Assembly and might not be around for awhile..he is the ID guy.
  • Try WCHA anyway
    Dan and Mike at WCHA also do build record searches and will give you a quick answer, if they have the info. I'm not sure they have it for the fiberglass canoes, though. Can't hurt to ask.
    Tell Mike you've got a wooden canoe to sell him cheap; see if you can get him in mooore trouble with his wife!
    Alan

Old Town Canoe Build Records


quote wiscochristi: 'I don't have old paperwork. However, I did find the info just below the gunwale (thank you alan gage). Also, a stamped number which I think says 4718.
Photos attached '
Looks like you've got yourself a vintage 70's Sawyer Guide Special. Obviously the metal ID tag helps identify the model much better, because judging by the posted pictures, it could be easily mistaken for the Cruiser. Both the Guide and the Cruiser had very similar profiles and were roughly the same length, but the Guide Special had a flatter bottom.
It's definitely not Kevlar. It has the telltale gray speckled interior paint job, which tells me it's a fiberglass lay-up. You can also see the pattern of the woven fiberglass roving. Sawyer, or any other Kevlar canoe manufacturer, generally will not paint over the entire interior of the canoe if it's a Kevlar lay-up.
Although Sawyer's marketing buzz word 'Goldenglass' wasn't used at that time, it still probably has a hint of Kevlar in the stems. Although 'Goldenglass' sounds great, it's merely a fiberglass lay-up with primarily leftover trim scraps from the Kevlar canoe production. That was at least the case with many of the Sawyer 'Goldenglass' canoes.
I know Wenonah would actually add 'fresh' Kevlar swatches to their fiberglass/Tuf-weave lay-ups. (The picture below was taken at the Wenonah factory around 1985 and it's their version of a Kevlar reinforced Fiberglass canoes. Similar to what Sawyer marketed as 'Goldenglass'.)
I can tell you that those old Sawyer fiberglass canoes were heavy as hell! I had a 'Goldenglass' Sawyer Charger and that beast weighed about 90+ pounds. It was a great tripping canoe and we'd use it on many river trips. But given it's weight, it was a real back breaker. That old Charger made an Old town Tripper seem lightweight.
The canoe pictured above also has those old fiberglass molded tractor seats, which Sawyer replaced with white, plastic tractor seats in the late 70's and early 80's.
A few years later, they replaced the white plastic seats with the transparent, smoke colored Lexan seats. Both of which included drain holes. But Sawyer installed molded Kevlar tractor seats in their Expedition Kevlar canoes. (The Kevlar molded seats were the natural Kevlar color.)
My point is, the seats in the canoe pictured above somewhat defines it age also and it was probably manufactured in the mid to late 70's, or possibly before.
I don't remember when Sawyer ceased production of the Guide, but it was out of their catalog by the early 80's.
I'm not sure what the stamped numbers indicate though, unless it was some very old identifier Sawyer used at the time, but I'm thinking not.
Sawyer's Serial number's were usually laid into the gel-coat on the upper stern section near the gunnels. The serial numbers begin with 'SAW' and the last two numbers of the serial number would denote the year of manufacture.
As far as a fair price, although it's in decent shape for a canoe that's around 35+ years old, I personally wouldn't pay more than $500.00 for it, but even that's on the high end.
Hans Solo