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Very very cool Brian - how did you make the checkerboard one? Are they individual squares epoxied together like a mosaic, or some fancy staining process?

The short answer is “yes” and “definitely makes sense but I don’t think that is what I did”. The long answer: I did this over a year ago, so some details a bit foggy. I don’t recall any issues whatsoever with slicing out the carbon over the slot, but I was a bit nervous that the gunwale would...

Some have epoxied small blocks to this type of gunnel to give extra width at the thwart and seat points - I’ve done this for bare wood gunnels, but if you shape them with a nice long and smooth bevel into the gunwale I am pretty sure they would integrate nicely with carbon sleeve as well...

I should also mention that once on the boat, I put a layer of fibreglass cloth over the top of the gunnels before filling the weave, in order to provide better protection of the carbon from bumps and roof racks, etc..

I’ve had good results using a cedar “uniwale” as stripperguy described, but with 8 oz carbon fiber sleeve. Probably not as light as a foam core, but still came out to around 3 pounds all-in for 3/4 x 7/8 gunwales on a 14 foot pack canoe. And the wood is totally encased in carbon and epoxy so no...

I’ve built this canoe, but not the hard-chined version. I would guess that you can do it by extending a little past the chine as you strip up from the sheer, then fit the flat edge of the next strip onto the back of the overlap. There is a good description and illustration of what I mean on the...

FYI - a cool story on the Canadian Canoe Museum’s move to a new home. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-canoe-museum-move-1.6926416

I’m in the Ottawa area. Very hazy and smoke-smelling air over the past 2 days. Today the official air quality index was at 10 (the highest/worst it goes). Unofficially, I read that the people who monitor this stuff say it hit 14 for part of the day. Apparently we had the worst air quality of...

Thanks Jim. I am going to scout out the Kevlar and glass cloth I would need (seems more difficult now to just find the material here in Canada, let alone at the basement price you scored). Feel free to go into excruciating detail when you post on the composite copy part of your build🙂.

Jim - really nice work (as usual). In terms of the composite copy, how much tumblehome is there in your hull? Is there a level of tumblehome that is just too much to make this workable when it comes to separating the copy from the cedar strip canoe? I have a stripper hull hanging from my garage...

I experienced somethIng called an aortic dissection last fall - basically when the inside lining of the aorta partially delaminates from the outside (kind of felt like a zipper letting go from the back of my throat running down to my abdomen). Came out of nowhere, and I was about an hour away...

This looks very very nice but gotta call you on misleading advertising Mem. As Alan said, I see no wood butchery or even any “ugly” here. Where are the misaligned/multiple butt-ended strips? The “extra” staple holes where you kept missing contact with the form underneath? Where are the blobs...

I’m definitely in

No doubt there are several DIY options - I’ve used plastic end caps for 1/2 inch Pex tubing on a strip build. If I recall they need a 9/16 hole for a snug fit. Less than $1.00 each at any Home Depot or Lowe’s, among others. Drill out the ends, cut the insert section to a little longer than...

I’ve made one following Brian’s video and plans. It is pretty fast and easy (a power planer helps a lot). It will also be a very wet paddle in a canoe.

FYI, another unicorn sighting in the Ottawa area. https://www.kijiji.ca/v-canoe-kayak-paddle-boat/ottawa/featherwight-12-ft-chestnut-canoe/1625111795

Hi Jim. Sorry for the delay in answering your questions. Not finished yet (4 more strips to close in the bottom), so can only give a partial response 1) Once done, the fish line is just cut across the whole sheer line and then pulled out strand by strand from between the strips. So no, they are...

I just did the exact same thing with strip ordering. After some cussing, I remembered that Persian rug makers deliberately weave in an error in their rugs to acknowledge that only God can be perfect. Since I will probably do a few more such goofs before I finish, I should wind up with a nice...

Crickets on this one, so of course I had to give it a try. Here’s a little report out for anyone who’s interested. Now building a 15 foot Ashes Solo Trip, and had accumulated some nice WRC so looking for a stapleless build that I wIl leave clear (always painted my exterior hulls up to now)...

Seen a few videos on this, and intuitively it seems it should work without needing a tonne of jigs and clamps (or at least have no more challenges than other approaches). For example: (it’s a long video, but the fishing line application starts at about the 3 minute point). Do any builders...