Sailing canoe rig

[Rod Tait (Orca Boats)]

Looking for some photos or help on what the original set up would have looked like on my Peterborough sailing canoe. I have parts and it looks like previous owners may have adapted the lee boards as I have two sets. How do lee boards attach to canoe as there is a bronze bracket that appears to bolt into scuppers. First photo is of current set up and then I have the extra boards. Also rudder does not look original, so hope to make a new one.

Current rudder with hardware. Looks like maybe the bottom wore or broke off and they added the extension.

Also came with a motor mount.

 

[Benson Gray]

The picture on page 34 of the 1927 catalog below may help. Your rig appears to have been significantly modified. Good luck,

Benson

Peterborough 1927 | Wooden Canoe Museum

woodencanoemuseum.org

 

[Rod Tait (Orca Boats)]

Thanks Benson for the link, but no close up photos. Must be someone out there that has a photo of the lee board set up for this canoe.

 

[Michael Grace]

Hi Rod - I have a couple of these Peterborough leeboard setups, a bit different from each other because they were made at different times, but generally the same contraption. They are exactly as described in the catalog: "folding - with special hinge. Hardwood". Everything about them is radically different from what is shown in the photos above. The leeboard setup in the first photo above looks completely homemade to me. The leeboards in the second photo look like they are re-shaped (tops cut off) from Morris, Kennebec, or possible early Old Town leeboards.

I'm away from them for a little while, but can get you photos when I get back if you haven't gotten them elsewhere by then. I hoped I might have them on this laptop but apparently not.

You could certainly make a replica. The whole thing looks complicated, confusing, but it works and could be recreated. The entire contraption - leeboards, leeboard thwart, hinges (six of them) are all put together as a single unit. It never comes apart, but just folds and unfolds as needed.

 

[Rod Tait (Orca Boats)]

Thanks. I would greatly appreciate any photos that you might be able to share. I am not super worried about making it exactly as original, just something close.