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Giles’s nesting pack canoes

January 2022September 2022Leave a comment

Here’s the finished result of the nesting pack canoe frames I shared a few weeks ago. This excellent example of our canoe building system was built by Giles in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Really nice work on these. ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post...

Cape Falcon 66 Canoes in Small Boats Magazine!

December 2021September 2022Leave a comment

Check out the cover story in this month’s edition of Small Boats Magazine from Adam, who built a triple nesting set of Cape Falcon 66 Canoes complete with catamaran setup and sails! Adam built these canoes as a way to get the entire family on the water within the transport limitations of a roof...

One of my favorite builds from this last year

November 2021September 2022Leave a comment

One of my favorite builds from this last year was from Iain in Scotland who is an experienced canoeist and wanted to try our building system. He put together a fantastic Student Build blog and also has been adding videos of his paddling adventures to his YouTube channel: Adventure Made. Ian and his friends...

Sanity checking rib shaping with photos from a student

September 2021September 2022Leave a comment

I encourage my kayak and canoe building students to text me pictures of their test ribs. This works almost as well as standing in the room with someone and gives both of us a sanity check on shaping before they commit to cutting and bending the rest of their often pricey bending stock. For...

Just a couple more canoes built with our system

September 2021September 2022Leave a comment

Just a couple more canoes built with our system by Gabe from Tufts & Batson. Gabe has been pushing the limits of our building system ever since he sunk his teeth into it last year. I’ve lost count of how many boats he’s built so far but it seems like with every new boat...

Bart’s fly fishing 66 canoe

August 2021September 2022Leave a comment

“Hey Brian…hope you are well! I’ve finally had a chance to give the canoe a fishing outing today. THE CANOE IS AWESOME!!! Thank you for everything and I cannot be more happy. I spent 5.5 hours and almost 9 miles in the back country marsh. No fish caught today but that’s fishing. Today was...

The micro schooner

July 2021July 2023Leave a comment

Digging through old photos I found this ridiculous contraption that actually worked pretty well. Last year I built a triple nesting set of canoes with the smaller two being solos and the larger one being mostly just a UV protection cover for the other two. I built rowing rigs for all three of them...

Video: Drone footage from the Surprise Lake trip

July 2021June 2023Leave a comment

Last bit of footage from the Surprise Lake trip, this time from the Skydio2 drone. I don’t fly the drone much because it’s prohibited in many areas (which I strongly agree with) and I personally won’t fly it anywhere near people. When the conditions line up though, it is really cool to be able...

Video: A foggy morning canoe sail

July 2021September 2022Leave a comment

Just a couple sailing clips from the foggy morning we spent on that high mountain lake a few weeks ago. Not a lot of sailing to be done on a lake that’s about as wide as a football field, but the pop-up sail is simple enough that it’s practical to snatch every little puff....

Surprise Lakes

July 2021September 2022Leave a comment

Just some random canoe porn while I work on less exciting things. The location is Surprise Lakes in the Gifford Pinchot national forest. Rolling up in the jeep to this easy access, idyllic lakeside campground, we were like: “why is there no one else here?!”. Answer: because they’ve all been eaten by the locust-like...

On YouTube: Testing the latest solo skin on frame canoe

July 2021June 2023Leave a comment

We just posted a new video on the Cape Falcon YouTube channel showing all the testing we’ve been doing with the latest solo. Being my last canoe build for 2021 I made sure to pack this video with design info and tons of eye candy. As usual I’m not sure that I’m the best...

On YouTube: Solo skin-on-frame canoe test

July 2021September 2022Leave a comment

Check out the Cape Falcon Kayak YouTube Channel for the full version of this lovely little video I stitched together from our time testing the latest solo on the upper John Day river. For technical reasons natural audio isn’t usually usable but it seemed to work out this time so I just let nature do...

Video: Testing the 14 foot solo canoe on a foggy morning

July 2021September 2022Leave a comment

On a recent canoe testing/filming trip we fell asleep under clear skies next to a lovely high altitude lake, and woke up engulfed in clouds. Never ones to miss a great filming opportunity we took advantage of this giant free soft box. It’s gonna take a while to get through the editing but here’s...

Video: trout fishing out of the new solo canoe

July 2021July 2023Leave a comment

Coming from a winter steelhead background, normal trout fishing always seemed like a consolation prize, I’ve had steelhead hit so hard and take so much line so fast that I literally jumped into the river and swam a rapid rather than lose the fish. There’s just nothing that compares to that experience, it gets...

Video: Running a class II rapid with the latest solo canoe

July 2021July 2023Leave a comment

Been shooting a lot of GoPro footage lately but I’m not totally sure what to do with it. I don’t get quite the same satisfaction out of editing compilations from the same point of view but it is cool to be able to bring people into the “drivers seat”, and I learn a lot...