Roger Kontak
Curious about Wooden Canoes
Early in the summer, I talked Craig Kitchen out of his Circa 1908 Morris B Model. The owners prior to Craig had the canoe in the family for 47 years and included a variety of sail components. Craig had also acquired a few more items. I'm relatively new in the hobby and am hoping to learn more about properly equipping the canoe as I go about having fun sailing it. It evidently had been sailed using a paddle as a rudder. Even so, a rudder and some hardware were included in the package. The rudder doesn't fit the shape of the stem so I suspect that none of the hardware was ever fitted to this canoe.
My question is what is known about early Morris sailing hardware - specifically the gudgeons and pintles. Did Morris use the same setup that I've seen on Old Town with a removable pin secured by a cotter pin on the top pintle (I am missing said pin from my assortment of hardware)?
My question is what is known about early Morris sailing hardware - specifically the gudgeons and pintles. Did Morris use the same setup that I've seen on Old Town with a removable pin secured by a cotter pin on the top pintle (I am missing said pin from my assortment of hardware)?