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Build your own canoe
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:48 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Time lapse video of a guy building a birch strip canoe from scratch. The results are stunningly beautiful......... and it was his first canoe!
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Re: Build your own canoe
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:12 pm
by Abraham
I vastly admire his skill.
Unless someone was giving me instruction for every step, I'd never achieve this man's ability to create beauty.
I love small boats.
I own 3 sea kayaks.
None beautiful, but all very practical from my 2 - Wilderness Systems 16' Tarpons to my 14.5' Aquaterra Perception.
The thing I've never understood is why canoeists insist on paddling like mad on one side and then the other, when a kayak paddle would do the job with half the pain...
Of course, not all of us small boat guys think alike...
P.S. I've owned sailboats and larger power boats, my last being a Boston Whaler Montauk and find of all boats, muscle powered boats like the beauty you brought to us are way more fun!
Re: Build your own canoe
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 3:50 pm
by ELB
Abraham wrote:...
The thing I've never understood is why canoeists insist on paddling like mad on one side and then the other, ...!
Cuz they weren't canoeists, just guys in a canoe. A
canoeist paddles on one side only.
And that is a cool canoe in the video.
Re: Build your own canoe
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:13 am
by papajohn1964
Abraham wrote:I vastly admire his skill.
The thing I've never understood is why canoeists insist on paddling like mad on one side and then the other, when a kayak paddle would do the job with half the pain...
Exactly why after our first season with our canoe we bought kayak paddles.
Re: Build your own canoe
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:58 am
by threoh8
"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." - Rat, in
The Wind in the Willows
That's a beautiful canoe, and very good work! I'd love to try one of those. I even have a book or two on the subject, and some plans. But life gets in the way ...
I've built a few stitch-and-glue plywood boats, including "six-hour" canoes (not far from being pirogues) and mouseboats (one-sheet of plywood for the hull does limit the capacity ...). Crude, very plain, but also less labor-intensive and less expensive. And, by golly, they work!
Here's my first one with my oldest. That summer, we took this and its twin on an overnight trip on a stretch of the Brazos with the Boy Scouts. One of the best weekends ever!
Mouseboat (not mine):
