I’m pretty excited about the new drone, not just for the media potential but also because it lets me see the boat in new ways which is helpful from a design perspective. There is no perfect drone for this sort of work but after much deliberation we decided on the Skydio2 for it’s simplicity...
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Video: Testing this year’s and last year’s canoes
This 13’9” x 28.5” canoe (brown) is roughly the same dimension as the smallest canoe in my triple nesting set from last year (gold). I built this mostly just as a teaching tool to re-film the canoe building course on our website, but also as a “throwaway boat” so I could blast through a...
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First side-by-side canoe comparison of 2021
First side-by-side canoe comparison of 2021. Both canoes share almost the same dimensions but somewhat different shaping. I like and dislike things about each one. I’ll go into detail about this in the next post once I edit the video we shot. For now I just thought I’d throw up a few pretty pictures!...
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New canoe outfitted and ready for action
Finally got the new canoe outfitted and ready for action. After the briefest of test paddles a couple days ago I decided that it was just a squeak outside of the size that I would like to use sitting low with a kayak paddle so I decided to set this up as a solo...
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Adam’s triple nesting canoe build
My favorite build right now is by Adam in Michigan who is building a triple set of nesting canoes for his family. This is just one of a whole series of time lapse videos that he just put up on his Instagram feed and also on his page on our Cape Falcon Student Builds...
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Time lapse: Coating the canoe
We finished re-shooting the coating section of the skin on frame canoe building course yesterday, completing a month long work push to reshoot the entire course. I’m looking forward to getting back to the more creative side of things in the coming months! The coating I’m using here is the two-part polyurethane sold by...
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First canoe frame of 2021!
First canoe frame of 2021! The progress on this boat is agonizingly slow because we are using it to reshoot the video course. For those of you who aren’t familiar with our canoe building system, 3 years ago a friend bugged me about building a pack canoe until I finally relented and because I’m...
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Reshooting the canoe building course
As of today Liz and I are officially halfway through re-shooting the entire Skin on Frame Canoe Building Course! This is a huge accomplishment not just because of the work involved but also just the personal challenge of teaching in the context of some pretty savage medical issues with brain function. On average of...
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Timelapse: Canoe build: Clamping and lashing on the stringers
I like to get the stringers on the same day that I bend the ribs because it really helps to smooth out the shape. It’s nice to have Liz’s help with the lashings. We just put on a podcast and an hour and 15 minutes later we are done with the lashing. We are...
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Timelapse: Canoe build: Bending in the ribs
Liz and I have been slogging through Canoe Building Course updates for the last few weeks so I haven’t had much of a chance to do anything creative, but the rib bending videos from last year are still pretty solid so we made this time lapse instead (check out the music!) The secret to...
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Triple nesting canoe set in progress
A couple posts ago I mentioned that we offer a discount for anyone who’s willing to put up their build on our Student Builds blog, and another build that I’m super excited about right now is this TRIPLE nesting set of solo canoe from Adam. Here’s a couple pictures of the build but there’s...
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Video: Just a pretty clip of a 14ft pack canoe built with our system
Just a pretty clip I found while scrolling through old pictures. 14 foot pack canoe, 27.5 inches wide, 24 lbs. Build time 30-45 hrs using our system....
Video: Kicking off this year’s canoe building season
To kick off this year‘s Canoe building season, here’s a quick video of a pair of nesting Canoes that I shot last year. As usual, I’ll be using this year’s builds to update any outdated portions of the online building course, then doing design work (read: wasting insane amounts of wood) to expand the...
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Always cool to see somebody really getting after it.
Always cool to see somebody really getting after it. Check out Wit‘s growing collection of skin on frame pack canoes built from our plans/videos in Bangkok Thailand. Wit has been refining the method of using Rattan for canoe ribs. Need a canoe in Thailand? Wit can build you one....
Jeremy’s double-paddle pack canoe
Just a few photos from an especially lovely Cape Falcon double-paddle 66 canoe build by Jeremy in Switzerland. Excellent work sir. ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »...