Build your own canoe

[mmcniven]

Check out this site on light weight canoes that you can build in around 40 hours http://geodesicairoliteboats.com/
I am sorely tempted to build one and have already emailed them to check that they will post to the UK. They can post most of the kit needed to build one except for the resin which can be easily bought here.

Michael

 

[Bob]

Here's another design that might interest you - using just willow, a suitable tarp, some wire / cord and 'Grip clips' (you can probably guess what they are!)

Check out the Shelter Systems website at

http://www.shelter-systems.com

Look under the Grip clips section and there's a 4-page tutorial on how to build it. It looks great fun but I admit I haven't got round to it yet as I'm still trying to find a suitable tarp (and the River Frome has been a bit low lately!!). The only tarps on offer around here are the 'woven' type which I don't think would stay waterproof for very long, and don't look particularly hard-wearing. A search on the web didn't turn up much either.

It's not as elegant as the other one but still valid I think!

Bob :-D

 

[Raz]

I went canoeing down the Looe Estury this summer in a Selway Fisher Prospector canoe.

You can buy the plans for around £30 here:
www.selway-fisher.com

Never been in a a better canoe, it was absolutely wonderfull.
I was going to build one over the winter but we havent's got the space anymore! :-x

 

[nuggets]

has any one got any (spare) plans for the selway prospector canoe - fancy trying my hand at one of them !!

 

[widu13]

This may help? Link

 

[Chambers]

I would love to build a canoe but at the moment funds are shy. I always thought the plywood ones looked a bit pants but have to say that prospector is stunning. Think it may be the one

 

[Minotaur]

New site from them just for canoes.

 

[Mike B]

Check out this site on light weight canoes that you can build in around 40 hours http://geodesicairoliteboats.com/
I am sorely tempted to build one and have already emailed them to check that they will post to the UK. They can post most of the kit needed to build one except for the resin which can be easily bought here.

Michael

There are a couple of people on Song Of The Paddle who have built the snowshoe 14' from kits supplied by the company in your link.
I have paddled a snowshoe 14 and my first impression was it looks flimsy but they are a good boat when built right,I would think though they would tear easily if run against pointy rocks etc but would be dead easy to repair.
I was relly impressed with them when it came time to hand it back and I may eventually get round to building one.
Mike...