Woke up to find this in my workshop this morning: Apparently Liz really wants the St. Lawrence River Skiff to have a Viking figurehead… ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »...
Category: Behind the Scenes
Video: Assessing the safety of this frame thicknessing method
I’m trying to decide if it’s safe to recommend this frame thicknessing method to my boat building students. It’s a lot easier and more accurate than getting after it with a handheld power planer but I’m not sure that all feed roller systems would allow someone to turn the workpiece? What do you think?...
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Video: Last day surveying boats
Last day surveying boats before I get to start the row/sail project! ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »...
Video: Behind the scenes of our studio setup
Here’s our basic setup for doing studio work: I like this setup because it’s simple, sturdy, and gets the job done. All this hardware has a lot of battle scars it this point, but it just keeps working, which is my most important requirement! ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed....
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Video: Behind the scenes
I’m doing an experiment this month where I’m going to be sharing some parts of our job that you don’t normally see here on Instagram. Let me know what you think, and if there’s anything specifically that you’re interested in seeing or learning about? ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed....
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Video: Our Jeep Cherokee Remote Work Setup, Part 2
Just in case you missed the first part of this video, this is a detailed overview of the solar electric set up that we use for camping and working for a week at a time out of our ’99 Jeep Cherokee XJ. I made this video because I haven’t seen a lot of good...
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Video: Our Jeep Cherokee Remote Work Setup, Part 1
Part 2 coming tomorrow! Setting up an XJ for two people to live fully self-contained for seven days without going over the GWVR (gross vehicle weight rating) is a mighty task in minimalism, especially when you add boats on the roof and the ability to work remotely. I’ve been designing minimalist solar electric set...
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Timelapse: Steambending a solo canoe
Here we are filming an updated steam bending video for the canoe building course. Like I said in the last post, every couple years I synthesize the recent feedback from my students, and then update the videos accordingly. This new video should be in the course within a couple weeks. ___ This post was...
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Video: Just some close clips skinning the kayaks
Check out the sound here. Just some close clips skinning the kayaks with my new Sigma 30mm 1.4 prime micro 4/3 lens (60mm 2.8 full frame equivalent). Not a huge change in imagery, but a big difference in how often I had to drag a 30lb studio light around for each shot. Should be...
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Thank you.
I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who shared their thoughts and ideas yesterday relating to my current medical situation. I’ll definitely be following up on many of them and I imagine this will consume most of my focus for quite some time, I’ll probably be posting about that journey in...
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Well, this last month pretty much sucked.
Well, this last month pretty much sucked. For those of you who know my backstory, I co-exist with some pretty brutal health issues, but we just added a new one to the list: Starting about a month ago at almost exactly 7:30 PM every night, while totally relaxed, my blood pressure is spiking as...
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Video: Finally the Skydio drone works well for capturing on the water footage!
The Skydio drone finally works really well! I’ve had the Skydio for a little over a year now and I have to be honest that at first it was really frustrating. It froze in the sky often, the camera bobbed wildly up and down, the footage always pushed you into a corner and partially...
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Video: On the water filming with an autonomous drone
Well, I finally managed to drown my iPhone and with it what I was planning to post today (it survived two years of rolling though so I still maintain that’s a pretty darn good waterproof rating). So here’s a clip from this last summer instead showing how Liz and I self film kayaking with...
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View from the video studio
I had to bring some boats inside last night to keep them from getting knocked around by the wind from a storm (my normal racks are full from all the prototyping I’ve been doing so things are starting to pile up on sawhorses in the driveway). So a bit of a full house but...
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Slogging through the less glamorous side of what we do
Haven’t been posting much lately because we’re just slogging through the less glamorous side of what we do here: filling orders, re-shooting videos etc. Here’s a few pics from a couple of F1 frames that I knocked out a couple weeks ago for a student who wanted to build a boat but didn’t have...
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