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Just to make sure, is aft from widest point to rear of the boat and bow from widest point to front of boat? is half inch aft and 1,5 inch to bow for rocker enough? I prefer more tracking. Does rocker have influence on speed of canoe? here is symmetrical and asymmetrical hulls. Edit: red line...

do you mean like this?

Yes, the bell magic looks good. I have drawn another version, it have tumblehome and shallow arc bottom. Length is going to be 15' What does flare mean in this context? Do you mean that bow and stern have low arc? English is not my native language, so just to clarify the meaning Yes, thanks...

Was that canoe made of cedar or pine? I read from kayak forum that polyester resin tends to stick better to pine than cedar. Does canoe need less epoxy to wet than polyester? It felt that my last canoe sucked polyester like 12-18 pounds total which sounds plenty for me.. I weight 158 pounds...

This is not plan for certain canoe model, It's drawn by me and I have just looked models on web to get inspiration. I plan to draw these ready and pull out DXF files and route molds with our workplace's CNC

Yes I used polyester resin, because I build the canoe out of pine and I read that polyester have problems to stick with cedar, but not with pine. Yes, it's homemade couple dozen hours with solidworks and then more hours at shop. I used chinese parts: sbr 20 and mgn 12 rails 8mm leadscrew with...

Well, 14 should be enough for me. ​​​​​ I was thinking something for calm rivers and small ponds, not sure yet if I prefer more speed than stability, but load weight should be high and I assume that flat bottom is better for that. Most important is the weight and ease to carry canoe between...

should the bottom of canoe be more like flat than U-shape?

Hi! It's time to start building an another canoe. I was thinking of solo canoe with -ability to paddle in shallow waters, -light -good stability Is 13 feet too short to paddle comfort? should I build 14 feet? Previous canoe was north west cruiser and I modified it little bit. It's 900mm wide...

I was thinking something like 13-14 feet solo canoe.

The Finger-joints are stronger than actual wood, so if I bend it, it will broke next to joint. Canoe I made at summer was very heavy, I think 70-100 pound. I can barely lift it to my shoulders. So anything is better than that. It's good canoe though. Well back to Finger-jointed pine strips, The...

Could I use finger-jointed pine for building stripper? I could get it cheap from local company's surplus. It is 20mm X 6mm x 6000mm strips so it would be ready for routing.

I finished canoe 2 weeks ago and made my first trip with it. paddles well and straight, hard to handle alone, but with two person easily. Some photos www.flickr.com/photos/160875754@N08/44670853762/in/dateposted-public/

And the gunnels are spruce, added approx. 5-10 pound weight. Height is 3/4" and widht 1/2" inwale blocks are 1/4". Sent from my GT-I8190 using Tapatalk

Thwarts, gunnels and decks are now complete. I tested canoe on water and 3" waterline surprised me. How it could fly top of water, like if there is just hint of water it didn't get stuck. here's some photos Sent from my GT-I8190 using Tapatalk

Ok. Thanks for advices. I will fill biggest ones and leave small ones untouch. Whats good dimensions for inwales, outwales and inwale blocks? I don't have any good plans and I would love to get some opinions. I planned to use 1/4 inch inwale blocks and 3/4 x 3/4 inwale and outwale. Also, is...

Going on! Inside glassed and two layers of resin applied. There is points where cloth is not in full contact to wood, can I do something for them?

It's made of soft rubber like in the rubber eraser

I used rubber trowel (https://www.hongkong.fi/fi/tyokalut-...sta/p/1182580/ )Like this one. The staple holes were filled with pine colored wooden filler. I watched videos about fiberglassing canoe and everybody else manage to sweep the trowel around dry fiberglass without problem. Trowel swiped...

I'm good at taking photos, one before glassing and couple from after... I used 1 pound of wood filler!