How can I find out more information about a 1991 old town canoe starting with the serial number XT? Looks like possibly a royalex boat with molded ribs about every 2-3 feet and what looks like a molded keel from my guessing on the pic. Thanks.
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Call Old Town with the complete Hull ID number...they will tell you everything about it.
the serial number follows the XTC. XTC is the manufacturers code. The numbers after may not be identifiable.. Sometime in the late 80's ( not sure of date) Old Town stopped carrying build records. Royalex molds do not allow for ribs and keels.. It could be fiberglass.
Does this help? Is it a poly boat?
Looks to be a Stillwater from my findings online. Not confirmed. For sale in my area $150 but it's a bit heavy compared to what I'm using now. Might be a nice gift for a family member. Opinions?
It would make a good canoe for your Allagash River trip. Its good to have a beater boat.
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Look like flotation tank in the bow there... so my guess is, it's a composite boat... But the rest I can't help!
It could be a Stillwater. Looks like our neighbors glass Stillwater. Its a slow boat. Its not real good on rivers either.. Its a flatwater cottage boat. Even the 2005 Stillwater is a heavy barge..
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Almost certainly a Stillwater.16 feet x 36 inches, 12 inches deep at center. The Stillwater was the economy version of the Katahdin 16, built with glass mat and three balsa ribs
Even at that price unless you need a cottage canoe I’d pass.
Edit: None of the old OT catalogs I checked list a weight for the Stillwater. The Katahdin weighs 60 lbs, so in glass mat I expect the Stillwater 16 is close to 80 lbs.
Could be worse, friends have a (no longer used) Stillwater 12. Twelve feet long x fourty-freaking-one inches wide in glass mat. That coracle has to weight close to 70 lbs; a slower and more unwieldy canoe was never made.
Even at that price unless you need a cottage canoe I’d pass.
Edit: None of the old OT catalogs I checked list a weight for the Stillwater. The Katahdin weighs 60 lbs, so in glass mat I expect the Stillwater 16 is close to 80 lbs.
Could be worse, friends have a (no longer used) Stillwater 12. Twelve feet long x fourty-freaking-one inches wide in glass mat. That coracle has to weight close to 70 lbs; a slower and more unwieldy canoe was never made.
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Thanks, I passed on it. Seller then mentioned a "tiny" hole in it. Hmmm, why not mention that in the first place.
The 2007 Old Town catalog lists weights for the Stillwater 12, 14 and 16 as 50#, 55# and 65#. Maybe they tweaked the layup in later years?
I bought my first canoe at the Old Town factory store, and I actually looked at a Stillwater 14. Fortunately the guys there said, "Nah, you don't want that." Thanks guys!
The Stillwater 12 is a funny looking boat. Looks like someone forgot to check "preserve aspect ratio" when they stretched an image.
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Good catch. I just looked at a 2006 fold-out OT catalog and it lists the weights of the Stillwater line as 12 foot at 50 lbs, 14 foot at 55 lbs and 16 foot at 65 lbs.
Those are essentially the same weights as the identically shaped/sized Katahdin models, but by 2006 OT had dropped the Katahdin line and the catalog prose says the Stillwater’s are “lightweight fiberglass construction”.
I am guessing OT did away with the glass mat construction and rebadged the Katahdin models as Stillwaters.
Those are essentially the same weights as the identically shaped/sized Katahdin models, but by 2006 OT had dropped the Katahdin line and the catalog prose says the Stillwater’s are “lightweight fiberglass construction”.
I am guessing OT did away with the glass mat construction and rebadged the Katahdin models as Stillwaters.
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That must be it. The '07 catalog says the 12' is "fiberglass", but the 14' and 16' are "infused composite", which sounds like fiberglass that's been to college, but probably what they mean is that it's the Katahdin layup and not the glass mat. Maybe the local junkyard ran out of corvette parts ...
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