Day 11, Skin-on-frame rower-sailer. Build time: 7hrs.
Spent the better part of the morning massacring otherwise innocent lumber in my indecisiveness about how I wanted to make the spars. I ultimately decided that Doug Fir was going to be too heavy, (after cutting it) so I took a deep breath and turned an absolutely perfect Yellow Cedar 2 x 6 into my canoe spars. It seems kind of criminal to me to burn a board like that on a canoe sail, but I just wasn’t ready to put a 20 pound rig on a 40 pound canoe. I’ve never considered yellow cedar for spars before, but looking at the finished product and feeling it it’s something that I would do again, at least for a small sail like this one. As usual now that they’re completely finished I want to make some changes. I don’t think I’ve ever actually made a spar set that I didn’t totally rework before varnishing.
Glued some stiffeners to the underside of the thwarts, because as much as I want it to be so, A red cedar 5/8 x 9 is just not quite strong enough.
Planed down the boards for my foils, And made some cute little foil templates courtesy of Michael Storer’s Oz Goose plans (with permission from Michael). Marked out the rough shape for tomorrow mornings foil butchering session. Screwed in the oarpads. .
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