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Excellent work - thanks for taking the time to do the writeup I recently ended up with a couple of sea canoes parked on top of my car (don't ask ), very similar construction as yours but they have an enclosed top with an opening for the driver. Was very surprised how light they are for the size, easy to lift with one hand Now I just need to find some spare time and sunshine so I can go and play
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Awesome, you really should get on the water, there's nothing like paddling silently down a river on a beautiful day. Loving your canoe rack too, much respect.
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As promised here’s a bit more information on one of the other types of canoe i have built. This one is a stripwood canoe, literally made from strips of wood. Usually cedar or some other hard wood is used, but i went with scrap plywood that i scrounged from a neighbour, along with lots of other types of timber that i pulled from skips and picked up from a timber yards off cuts pile! Bear in mind this was a prototype, and still isn’t finished (my dad has it at the moment!) 1) Build a strongbackThe strongback is basically the spine that you build the canoe on. I built mine from sections of scrap wood and got it all as straight as possible. It was about 15 or 16 feet long. 2) Make some formersUsing some plans (there are plenty of free ones around) measure, mark and cut a set of formers and secure them to the strongback at equal distances. 3) cut some stripsI bought a circular saw, cut all the plywood into strips and then sold it again! The strips can be any width really, but the narrower you make them, the more granular the shape will be. 4) Nail some strips onto the formersStart off with a keel line and a couple of strips down each side, it helps the whole thing become more stable. Then just keep building! You can glue the strips together one at a time using cascamite or a decent bonding agent. 5) Sand the whole thing and seal it6) Fibreglass the whole thing!Annoyingly i used some cheap chopped strand matt to cover the whole thing as i was sure it was going to need paining when it was finished to hide all the scrap wood i used. Looking back, i should have used decent woven matt. After that, you can upturn the canoe (its now pretty solid!) remove the formers and build it up as you would the simple plywood canoe. I then made a sling using some homemade trestles and some rope, so i could work on the canoe and turn it to the right angle etc. Anyway, you get the idea by now i'm sure. The canoe is currently with my dad for finishing, it was originally a present for him! He works a bit slowly, but i will try and get some pics of where he is currently at with it. Chris.
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How thick is the ply in that? And did you need to soak it to bend it?
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How thick is the ply in that? And did you need to soak it to bend it? It was 5mm, old stuff that had been used as packing material. My neighbour just happened to be clearing out his shed, and asked if I could make use of it.
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May 10, 2015 13:08:35 GMT
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Awesome, you really should get on the water, there's nothing like paddling silently down a river on a beautiful day. Loving your canoe rack too, much respect. Pair of 16ft canoes for sale ?
I've had a word with the boss (SHMBO ) and both her canoes could be for sale/swap. She's looking to end up with 1 smaller (8ft ?) canoe so is happy to sell one of hers or p/ex the pair for a smaller one + cash £75 each / offers? If materials budget for a small one is about £100 it's a cheap and quick option... North East based, (Bishop Auckland DL14 / Cramlington NE23 etc) Both are ready-to-use, 16ft, plywood construction (including spray deck). Good yellow paint on sides & bottom, the paint on top is a usable but due for a refresh. Also 1 custom canoe rack in the pic (the plywood one - not the estate! ), and maybe 1 x set of timber rests for the other canoe. Photobucket is acting up for me today - I'll add more pics later if anyone wants?
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Last Edit: May 10, 2015 13:12:48 GMT by nomad: typos...
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Love these ? I'm going to have a go at making one of the plywood canoes from the the original post, I'm wondering would the mesh tape that painter and decorators use for filling joints in plasterboard be suitable for the external joints?
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Jun 17, 2015 21:33:55 GMT
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I did some Kayaking over 20 years ago & have signed up for a seesion with the local Canoe club for this Friday........I may well need to refer back to this thread if all goes well, fond memories paddling down a river. :-)
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Jun 17, 2015 21:39:07 GMT
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Love these ? I'm going to have a go at making one of the plywood canoes from the the original post, I'm wondering would the mesh tape that painter and decorators use for filling joints in plasterboard be suitable for the external joints? If its glass fibre tape then yes, but it needs to hold the sections together, and its not terribly expensive so better to get the right right stuff. Same with the bonding agent, you need Sikaflex or something insanely good, although you can also use Cascamite, bought as a powder and mixed with water. That stuff is awesome. If you want to pm me I can give you my contact details and give you as much help as you need. Chris.
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That looks pretty cool. Pity you can't see the colour of the wood though, but I guess with the fibreglass no matter what you do you'll never see the colour of the wood.
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That looks pretty cool. Pity you can't see the colour of the wood though, but I guess with the fibreglass no matter what you do you'll never see the colour of the wood. Well, the exterior was my fault. I c*cked up by trying to use a cut strand matting (csm) instead of woven matting, and it turned into a real mess. I will make another after this one, and i will not be making the same mistake.... Done correctly with woven matting and wetted out properly, the fibre glass matting is transparent...... The interior looks like this, so should look great when youre sat it in paddling!:-
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Nov 12, 2016 19:19:33 GMT
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Hi
Love the one sheet design do you have a link to the plans please?
Thanks Adrian
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Nov 13, 2016 11:58:52 GMT
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Hi Love the one sheet design do you have a link to the plans please? Thanks Adrian Hi Adrian, Yep, links are in the first post. Got loads of these plans though, pm me if you need any help. Chris.
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Nov 13, 2016 23:27:08 GMT
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Nice to see this thread again. It's responsible for a lot! I have a book on building a cedar strip canoe. Sadly I have nowhere to build one and nowhere to store it if I did build one. Really pretty boats though. When this thread first cropped up it reawakened some thoughts I'd had a couple of years before. 1, Given I have nowhere to store a boat, what about an inflatable that would go in the loft? 2, If we bought an inflatable canoe, could we get one light enough to put on a plane to Canada (Ontario is the canoeing capital of the world as far as I'm concerned) yet strong enough to take into the wilderness and expect it to get us back? The answer was 'yes' on both counts. May I introduce you to our Sea Eagle 385FT. Which has taken us to some wicked places. And got us home again. This was taken last year on Missinaibi lake in Ontario. The lake is bloody huge, much much bigger than this photo makes it look. Missinaibi is two hours up a gravel track, literally in the middle of nowhere. A couple of hundred years ago it was one of the canoe highways that the Hudson's Bay Company used to get furs out of central Canada and back to Europe. Today there is a small camp site and a few fishermen. When you paddle out of the camp the only real way back is in the boat. You could try and break through the forrest but it'd be hard work and there have been bear attacks up there. It's one of those stunningly beautiful places where you are responsible for your own life. In the boat, watching the sun go down over the lake... The boat has been all over the place. England, France, Caribbean, and a couple of times to Canada. This year we did nearly 90 miles of paddling just in Canada. cdwood2010 , sorry for hijacking your thread, but without it I wouldn't have been to some fantastic places. James
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Not a problem. My dad and I went into the Algonquin interior a few years back, which was what started the whole canoe interest. Managed to get a bit more done on the stripwood canoe, so now it looks like this....
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Nov 14, 2016 22:14:28 GMT
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Not a problem. My dad and I went into the Algonquin interior a few years back, which was what started the whole canoe interest. Small world isn't it... Mrs Sweetpea and I started our canoeing adventures on Little Joe Lake in Algonquin a few years ago. Keep up the good work!
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Feb 27, 2017 19:56:10 GMT
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