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Boat is done.    Several coats of varnish and a paddle.  Storage compartment in place.  Total build time:  17 days.  45 hours.

More decks

Got the decks faired and glassed.  Next up is sanding, varnish and a paddle

Decks

Got the decks on.  We're almost done here.

Rails

Got a lot done in the last few days.  Inner and outer rails.

Glass

Got the boat glassed and off the molds.  It's been so hot her that the resin kicked in less than an hour.  Got the fill coat on the same day.  That kicked in and hour so I popped it off the molds.

Bull nose

Found some mahogany so I made the bull nose from it.  I usually use cherry but don't have any so this will do.  The wales will get the same treatment.  Next up is finish sanding and then glass.

Sanded the bull nose and most of the boat.

Staples

I got all the strips on the boat done.  It's fun putting the staples in because they hold the wood in place while the glue dries. It's an electric so no hard handle to squeeze.   Bad part of that whole prosess is taking all 1200 staples out one at a time.


boat with staples.

 Boat without staples and ready for sanding.  I'll use a random orbital sander with 60 grit paper.

More strips

Day 4. Making good progress.  Worked 3 hours.  Got most of the strips on. Got about 5 left to do.

Tumblehome

I got one side of the tumblehome done.  I made 6- 10.5 foot sections. Three for each side. I wanted to have a continuous strip just like the shear strip. The rest o the boat will be 8 foot strips butted to 10 foot.  I'll get the other side tomorrow.  One more hour.

Day two went well. Got about 20 strips on.

Another Nymph

So here we go again.  I like these small canoes.  A bit of a chalange for the tumblehome but other than that a straight upbuild.

I cut up 5 cedar boards. Got them from Lowes.  I picked thru the pile they had and found 5 relatively knot free boards.  That job took about an hour. I'm going to try and document the build time for this boat.  Haven't done that before.


The 5 boards gave about 110 strips.  I'll probably get two boats out of them.

These are the building forms. I've done several canoes on them so they show the work. The blue stuff is tape from the last build. Keeps the boat from sticking to the forms.  The glue seeps thru and sticks to the tape not the wood forms.

First strip.  This one has to be right.  It sets the stage for all the others.

Leftover from cutting up all the strips.