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 damage on top of the car.
Honestly what I’m hoping for here is more of a poor man’s rowboat because both of us really like to row and neither of us have the time right now to build an Adirondack guide boat. I feel like with a simple outrigger setup and a pair of guide boat oars I doubt I could tell the difference if somebody blindfolded me. The amount of a guide boat that’s actually touching the water isn’t a whole lot different than a canoe.
The other cool thing is that the triple set can be catamaraned medium small or medium big, and the larger one has enough volume that it could probably handle some fairly decent waves if they ever open the rivers again. I’m also just perversely curious what would happen if I put two pop-up sails in the bow of that catamaran and tried to do a downwind run upstream on the Columbia river when it’s blowing about 25.
Really the most important thing here is just gaining more experience with my rib length formulas at various sizes so I can make accurate recommendations to my students.
I’m just gonna post clips from a video I’m making about this one this week so if you’re curious about any of the specific operations go back in the feed and check out the posts on last full size canoe I built where I describe all the steps in detail.
PS. There’s music.
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