Multi-use canoe B.N. MORRIS 15

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About the Historic B.N. Morris B.N. Morris built canoes in Veazie, Maine from the 1880’s to 1920. His canoes are considered to be some of the finest wooden canoes ever built. No Morris forms survived the 1920 fire that destroyed the canoe factory. After finding an original 15-foot Morris at the Adirondack Museum, a customer commissioned me to recreate this lovely canoe. As with the other reproductions that I build, I go to great lengths to faithfully reproduce the canoe just as B. N. Morris would have built it. The Type 1 canoes have short decks and spruce inside rails, and mahogany outside rails, deck and seat frames. All the seats are hand-caned. To aid in lifting