Here’s another great Cape Falcon solo canoe example build by Tanner. Being a powerline technician Tanner had access to old power poles which he milled with a chainsaw for the longitudinal pieces! Living on the Canadian Prairie local wood for the ribs wasn’t really an option so he imported the White Oak, which is...
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Beautiful solo built by Ruedi in Switzerland
Here’s another beautiful solo built by Ruedi in Switzerland. To my eye it looks just a little bit round on the bottom which could be due to less than optimal bending stock or choosing a different value for the rib length formula then the plans suggest. On the other hand it could also just...
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John’s solo canoe
I want to share this lovely example of our canoe building system, built by John in Virginia. The canoe is 14‘10“ long, and 30” wide, 12.5” deep, with 2” of rocker, and 2” of tumblehome. John is 180 pounds which is about as heavy as I would go before making the canoe 5 inches...
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Stefan’s double-paddle canoe
I want to share a couple pictures of this especially nice Cape Falcon double paddle canoe built by Stefan in Switzerland. The shaping on this one is perfect and I can tell from the pictures on his account that he started with some really nice bending wood. I always encourage anyone considering building a larger...
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Lovely triple nesting canoe build from Joel in Ireland
I want to share this lovely triple nesting Cape Falcon canoe build from Joel in Ireland. Initially Joel contacted me just wanting to build a couple of tandems but I always encourage people to build a smaller solo first to get familiar with the system. He took my advice and later said it really...
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Giles’s Nesting Pack Canoes
While my attention is focused elsewhere I thought I would share a couple student builds over the next couple days. You might remember these near-perfect nesting pack canoes built by Giles in New York. I finally got some on the water photos!...
Video: The sun through a canoe skin
Deep in the video editing today working on a couple projects and I found this nice clip, enjoy....
Video: A few clips of canoe catamaran sailing last summer
Just a few clips of Canoe Catamaran sailing the nesting canoes from a YouTube video I’m working on right now. The Canoe Catamaran functionality is built into our system from the ground up, meaning that it’s integrated and standard and not just an afterthought. The sail rig weighs 2-3 pounds (carbon vs aluminum), takes...
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Video: Nesting the canoes
One of the cooler things about working with a formula-based Canoe shaping system is that I can use the math to make them nest like Russian dolls! It’s kind of a neat party trick but it’s also fairly useful for storage and transport. All three of these fit easily on top of our Honda...
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Commission canoe leaving the shop
Just a bit of random skin-on-frame canoe porn to get you through your Wednesday morning. You can find all the technical details on this canoe a few posts back. 14 feet, 26lbs, etc…....
Rory’s tandem canoe
Getting trip reports from people who have built my boats is one of my absolute favorite things. These pictures come from Rory in British Columbia who spent a couple days camping with his wife and daughter this last weekend. Rory’s canoe is 16 1/2 feet long, 36 inches wide, and 13 5/8 inches deep...
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Steam bending Greg’s canoes
I spent yesterday helping a student steam bend the ribs into a couple canoes. Normally I don’t teach in person anymore because of health issues but I do make exceptions for people who also struggle with limitations! Greg here is kind of a bad ass because he can barely see due to macular degeneration...
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One of my favorite size canoes
Here’s a couple nice pictures of the same size canoe that Kevin is building right now. Our system lets you build any size boat you want, but this is one of my favorites because of how versatile it is. At 13‘9” long, it has enough waterline length to hold decent speed but also a...
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Kevin’s canoe: Stringers tied on
More progress on the canoe I shared yesterday from Kevin. There’s really only about 40 hours of actual work in a canoe this size. ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »...
Kevin’s canoe: Steam bending
As long as I’m on a steam bending kick here, I just wanted to share this really nice example of steam bending one of our canoes from Kevin (@prairiestonecustom). About four years ago I created a new type of skin on frame canoe building system that uses a mathematical formula to determine the rib...
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