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Making progress on the stem bands,

Agreed. I’ve made a number of skin on frame kayaks, but never a canoe. I use polyester fabric, but dacron is usually the choice for canoes.

KITE BUILD I had to re-do my website for my projects. My old site / server is going away. Farback Carpentry I've cut a bunch of ash strips for the stems. I fabricated alignment jigs for controlling them on the forms. Hot water soak and some heat gun persuasion and it's going much easier than...

Reading the fourth in a John Sanford series for fun, ‘Bad Blood’ and various tech training for my new volunteer job with CASARA, civilian air search and rescue.

Aligned all stations with laser level, all tight and in place. On to cutting some ash for the stems next.

All forms completed. starting to assume a sort of 'canoe' shape. Working under the careful eye of the design team.

Build continues between fire calls. It's been a busy week for us here. I found a different way to get repeatable line up on the station bolt holes. My layout marks were drifting off with repeated marking of the same cross-hairs as I laid out the MDF using the template. I now put the un-drilled...

Full PPE to rough cut the sheets for the remaining forms. 5/8 MDF, AKA dimensionally stable compressed cancer.

Got started on this build finally. Five sheets of plywood later I have my mobile strongback and the first couple forms made from 3/4 GIS ply. Three sheets of 5/8 MDF are in the carport for the remaining forms ready to rip down to carry-able size for my 69.9 year old self. If I could just keep...

I have the same plane and Nick’s robo-bevel. Recommend both. The plane is very handy both in and out of the robo-bevel.

I’ve heard the same story for years

Getting started on my winter project building a Kite. I’ve found my Redbird too much boat for solo trips, and my Petrl Play tight on cargo space. The solution, after a lot of research, is this next project. I ordered the plans through Nick Schade at Guillemot Kayaks. I’ve built a couple of...

This is a trip I did in 2021 to a wilderness area north of Kejimkujic Park. It’s detailed on Canoe Nova Scotia’s site,

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