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I own a canoe of a same length but it was not a self build one. you will have great satisfaction in building it & even more joy in paddling one., I hope the project goes well for you, can you let us all know how you get on, hopefully with picture of the progress & first paddle.
best of luck
best of luck
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I fancy one of these myself, I would be very interested in how it handles to.
Chris
This is the two 6mm plywood sheets cut out with the but blocks ready to be glued in place, I used contact adisive to fick the butt blocks, according to the plans you should use a mixture of wood flour and resin but I didn't have any woodflour.
The second picture shows the but blocks in place held down with some handy bits of garden wall.
The thired picture is the sides held in place with duct tape ready for fibreglass and resin.
I'll upload more pictures later
The second picture shows the but blocks in place held down with some handy bits of garden wall.
The thired picture is the sides held in place with duct tape ready for fibreglass and resin.
I'll upload more pictures later
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Would like to see pics too. I am a boatbuilder and if you need to know something, just ask, I'll be happy to help.
Sapper,
SoTP forum has loads of info on self builds together with some folks photo-logs of their projects. Well worth a visit and some v knowledgable people too.
I have a 16 foot strip-built on the back-burner, but work on the house takes priority at the mo
SoTP forum has loads of info on self builds together with some folks photo-logs of their projects. Well worth a visit and some v knowledgable people too.
I have a 16 foot strip-built on the back-burner, but work on the house takes priority at the mo
1st picture
A detail of the inside resined and the starts of the fillets.
I started to use P38 compound to make the fillets on the inside of the boat, unfortunatly it is very expensive so I gave up on that idea, in the end i got a big bag of sawdust from a local timber place and mixed that with the resin. That gave a much smother result than the picture here. (I'll upload the inproved version latter)
2nd picture
the boat has been resined on the inside and it's now turned over and any gaps are filled with more fibre glass compound, when it's dry it's smoothed off and tapes of fibreglass matting are resined over the edges
A detail of the inside resined and the starts of the fillets.
I started to use P38 compound to make the fillets on the inside of the boat, unfortunatly it is very expensive so I gave up on that idea, in the end i got a big bag of sawdust from a local timber place and mixed that with the resin. That gave a much smother result than the picture here. (I'll upload the inproved version latter)
2nd picture
the boat has been resined on the inside and it's now turned over and any gaps are filled with more fibre glass compound, when it's dry it's smoothed off and tapes of fibreglass matting are resined over the edges
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Looking good so far.
I remember looking at the plans myself and wondered if the sides would be high enough. But I know bugger all about these things and I'm sure the designing knows what he's doing. I also thought the wood was quite thin, and again wondered if it would be strong enough. But as I say - what do I know.
Really interested to see how you get on with yours. Good for you for having a go. I know when you've completed it and taken it for its first paddle and loved every minute of it I'm going to be really envious. What have costs been like so far?
I remember looking at the plans myself and wondered if the sides would be high enough. But I know bugger all about these things and I'm sure the designing knows what he's doing. I also thought the wood was quite thin, and again wondered if it would be strong enough. But as I say - what do I know.
Really interested to see how you get on with yours. Good for you for having a go. I know when you've completed it and taken it for its first paddle and loved every minute of it I'm going to be really envious. What have costs been like so far?
I had my doubts to but after adding the resin fillets/woodflour fillets and the fibreglass tape it's quite stiff, and I've the rub rails and breast hooks to go on yet.
The 2 plywood sheets were about £10 each, I started of buying fibreglass stuff from halfords. but that is stupid as it costs about £5 for 500 ml of resin, and the filler I was going to use for the fillets abou £17 for 600ml which is enough to do about 500mm of fillet.
I found a industrial fibre glass moulding place in yellow pages under "Fibreglass material suppliers" and they sold me all the resin and hardener I needed for £20, in fact they put about 7 lts of resin in an old tub they had lying about and charged me for 5lts, plus they really knew what they were talking about and were very helpful.
1st picture
Coating the outside with resin
2nd picture
Adding new fillets to the inside seams, these were made using resin mixed with sawdust from a local place, they gave me a big bag full for the price of taking it away
3rd Picture
the fillets wetted out with more resin
4th Picture
The fillets at the pointy end (note proper use of nautical terms)
5th Picture
Adding tapes to the out side seams
Coating the outside with resin
2nd picture
Adding new fillets to the inside seams, these were made using resin mixed with sawdust from a local place, they gave me a big bag full for the price of taking it away
3rd Picture
the fillets wetted out with more resin
4th Picture
The fillets at the pointy end (note proper use of nautical terms)
5th Picture
Adding tapes to the out side seams
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About stability i was thinking more in the lines of contact with underwaterdebris or dropping something heavy into the canoe.
Well what I've done so far has taken about 3 evening sessions, so about 12 or 14 hours, but that has beenover 4 weeks because of weather (I'm doing it in the garden) and sometimes you just don't have good weather when you have time.
It seems that work ect often gets in the way of my life
I rekcon about the same again will finish it.
About stability i was thinking more in the lines of contact with underwaterdebris or dropping something heavy into the canoe.
Fair point, well presented. I understand that flat bottoms sit very high in the water so the chances of contact with underwater stuff "should" be reduced, as for dropping heavy stuff in I don't suppose it will be worse than a skinned canoe, but not as as good maybe as a solid fibreglass one.
In truth I don't know because this is the first canoe I have ever built and my experiance is limited to kyaks.
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