so this is a laughing move wee Robbie canoe built from the plans from laughing
Loon Pat wanted to do little kayak and I didn't it snows up here a lot in the
winter so I figured I could make one fairly proficient woodworker that didn't
worry me the fiberglass part did because I've never done it it's ten and a half
feet long it's got a capacity of 250 pounds I had some cherrie that I had
traded for the strip's are actually 3/8 of an inch thick when you start well you
put it around forms and any little bit you have to do you can hit it with a
heat gun by the time they're done scraping off the glue dots because you
use hot melt as little clamps as you go because it makes it go quicker you sand
it all down and you put fiberglass cloth on it and you put the resin on it and
the design was all about being light so I'm guessing the wood now is a
quarter-inch that thick her up an eighth of an inch thick or less but that just
gives it the shape the fiberglass gives it to strength and I used spruce for the
gunnels because it's a little lighter than the cherry the bottom of it is
actually cedar and if you see the dots across the bottom since it's below the
waterline that's where you staple it to the forms to keep the shape you don't
see that on the sides above the waterline because I used hot melt glue
to hold it to the forms on the ends of it it's filled in those are air tanks
just in case it doesn't float here in a minute we won't lose it on the bottom
and I caned to seat myself I did 3/4 of it didn't like it tore it out did it one
more time and then I got talked into doing a chair for a relative and then I
threw all my extra cane away because I don't really ever care to do that again
so that's pretty much it in a nutshell and
they have really enjoyed the project and there's a little bit of work in that
backrest again that's out of cherry and I'm not
really a carver but that came out fairly decent so if I ever built another one it
would come out better and there'd be a few things different but all in all for
a hack I'm pretty pleased with it
the black on the front and the bow and the stern is actually polypropylene tape
which is very tough and abrasion resistant so that gives it a little
little help when you have to push it up into the gravel like that
now I've lost 75 pounds since I started building this boat mind you but I am
technically right at the limit
but I am I am too big for this canoe
it's so smooth isn't it
I would bring them straight out and I'd put fill pieces in here and then there's
some spots where it's just learning how to do it I wouldn't wouldn't do the
staples the same and a whole lot I think other than that I would just be better at it