Front seat height on a Veazie

[Howie]

The front seat in my circa 1905 Veazie came with no spacers - it was snug against the rails. I'm wondering if this was common for Morris or Veazie.

The front seat bolts are shortish and could accommodate space maybe a 1/4" spacer at most. The bolts appear to be original - they are the type that are bent into an L shape and captured in a pocket in the rail and were a little difficult to remove. But I know that someone before me had worked on the canoe at one time - I suppose he might have replaced the bolts and removed the spacers... but why? I should add that the rail caps didn't look like they had been removed.

 

[Benson Gray]

All of the canoes shown in the Veazie catalog at https://www.mainememory.net/media/pdf/36183.pdf appear to have the bow seats bolted directly to the rails without any drops. The one shown at http://www.wcha.org/content/historically-significant-1905-morris-veazie-canoe has drops but it has been restored. There are many Morris catalogs (and the Veazie one) available from http://www.wcha.org/store/historic-wood-canoe-and-boat-company-catalog-collection if you want to research this further.

Benson

 

[Howie]

Ha! I bought the catalogue (as per your suggestion in an earlier Thread) but hadn't noticed the seat heights in the pics. Thanks for the info.