This free annual event marks the season opening of the museum and will include museum tours and open house in the museum exhibit hall, ongoing activities and demonstrations in the canoe workshop, live music and food and beverage in the beer garden, a silent auction and canoe raffle, and of course the annual WCHM Canoe & Wooden Boat Show in the street in front of this former grain elevator turned museum. The canoe has arrived in Spooner in time for the museum’s opening day event this Saturday May 25th, Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Day. A check with a tape measure proved the length to be an astonishing twenty-five feet. A quick hunt for the serial number etched inside the bow and a check on computer disc of Old Town build records revealed that boat was built and sold in 1925. The canoe arrived about 2:15 PM, and there was plenty of help on hand to unload it from a specially modified trailer, move it indoors, unwrap it from its shrink wrapped protection, and gawk at this nearly 100 year old marvel. The canoe will reside in the museum canoe shop to undergo a summer’s long restoration project while being available for viewing by the visiting public. This particular canoe is owned by Mike Cichanowski, founder and CEO of Wenona Canoes, and is being lent to the museum for the summer of 2019. “War Canoe,” or the racing of large canoes with eight to ten paddlers, was a popular sporting activity for canoe clubs throughout the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, especially in Canada.

IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL US AT (888) 525-2925.Volunteers were waiting at the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner last Friday May 17 for the expected arrival of an antique Old Town “War Canoe.” It would take a number of people to move this large craft, built to be paddled by as many as ten people at a time, so those volunteers would be needed when the canoe arrived. The example above would be for a 2009 model boat, molded in January 2009. The next digit is the year the kayak was built, and the last two numbers will be the model year of the kayak.The letter A represents January, B would represent February and so on.The next digit is a letter that represents the month of the year your boat was molded.The next five digits are generated in sequence by our system to give each boat its own unique serial number.The WEM is required as per coast guard regulations as a company identification code, and means you have bought a quality Wilderness Systems product.WEMELA29A909 THE SERIAL NUMBER BREAKS DOWN IN THIS ORDER: The serial number consists of 12 alphanumeric digits.Įx.

Your serial number will always be in this area. Most, but not all boats, have a recessed area here.

To locate your kayak's serial number look at the right (starboard) side on the back (stern) of the boat on the outside of the hull.

Old Town Canoe Serial Number