Woke up at 5 o’clock in the morning to finish the frame and put some oil on it before the morning sun made it impossible to film. The weird thing about film compared to photography is that you can’t change the shutter speed so to get these shots we started at 5:15 with the...
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Video: Largest of the triple nesting canoe set, Day 6
Finished fairing the stringers into the stems, tied them on, shaped and tied on the keel, installed some mounting blocks in the seat location, and just generally cleaned up the frame. About a half day’s work overall. I really like the contrast of the pine against the oak. This is the first canoe I’ve...
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Video: Largest of the triple nesting canoe set, Day 5
Bent ribs in the morning and Liz pitched in to help tie on the stringers in the evening. About eight hours of work overall. The shape on this one is a little finer in the ends and a little softer in the bilge than I wanted but this gives me valuable information I can...
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Video: Largest of the triple nesting canoe set, Day 4
Today I made the stems, set the keel rocker, and prepped the ribs for steam bending tomorrow. Another short day, probably about four hours total but that’s fine because the irony of what I do is that it literally takes me longer to make the videos than to build the boats! If you’re new...
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Video: Largest of the triple nesting canoe set, Day 3
Working pretty slow these days, just a couple hours in the shop each day. Fortunately that still equals decent progress in a skin on frame boat....
Video: Largest of the triple nesting canoe set, Day 2
I’m using pine and fir for the longitudinal wood and the stems on this one, mostly just to use up some wood that I have around the shop. I imagine that this will end up tipping the scale at about 40 pounds which is definitely not as nice as my 30 pound smaller red...
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Video: Largest of the triple nesting canoe set, Day 1
Back to building canoes. At 15‘6“ long 32 1/2” wide and 13” deep, this final addition to my triple nesting canoe set is less of a canoe that I actually want or need for anything and more of just a weird experiment that if nothing else will protect my other two canoes from UV...
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Video: Some clips from the recent canoe launch
Here’s a couple of video clips from the recent canoe launch. There are full construction details about this boat a couple posts back AND I just posted a detailed video about it on the Cape Falcon Kayak YouTube channel, with a lot more information than I can write here. Being a novice canoeist I’m...
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Video: Getting the canoes ready launch
There’s an inverse relationship between the amount of hassle that it takes to get a boat to the water and how often you actually go boating, and it’s this truth drives my obsession with simplicity and light weight. Likely because of medical issues that I deal with relating to metabolism, I’ve always found the...
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Details on the smallest canoe of the triple nesting set
We spent the last couple weeks doing some major updates to the canoe building course and building the smallest solo canoe in the triple nesting set I’m building right now. This canoe is 28 inches wide, 13’8” long and 11 1/4” deep. The sheer height is 1 1/2” taller in the bow than in...
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On YouTube: A discussion of the latest canoe design
We just posted a new video on the Cape Falcon Kayak YouTube channel talking about the latest canoe design, and as usual 25% of everything I’m saying is already out of date! Lots of nice clips in this one and a clear synopsis of the building system. Full video embedded at the bottom of...
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Some of my favorite skin on frame images, Post 1
While we grind through video work for the next couple weeks I’ll be posting some of my all-time favorite skin-on-frame pics, this little clip from just a couple weeks ago is quintessential. Even the sound is nice....
A few shots of recent student built boats
We’re back to the slow torture of video production this week, (and next week, and the week after that….) So rather than complain about that here’s a few random photos various builds that my students have sent me lately. Good work guys, you know who you are. If you’re building one of my boats...
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Video: Sailing the pack canoe
When I was designing the pack canoes I came up with the idea for a little pop-up sail that would hinge off of the lower part of the stem, using the end of the canoe itself as the mast partners. It folds unobtrusively out of the way and stays in the canoe all of...
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Video: Final scraps of footage from the recent canoe launch
Final scraps of footage from the recent canoe launch. This one is dedicated to Liz, (the real talent around here) who managed to keep me framed and in focus despite being handicapped by an experimental sailing canoe with no rocker. By request, I’m building her a boat that actually turns this week....