Bent ribs in the morning and Liz pitched in to help tie on the stringers in the evening. About eight hours of work overall.
The shape on this one is a little finer in the ends and a little softer in the bilge than I wanted but this gives me valuable information I can pass along for how to get it right on the next one.
There are some shapes that my formula-based rib length system won’t let me make, but it still allows for a pretty wide range of shapes and sizes of canoes. The challenge is just learning what values to plug into the formula for each different canoe size. Unfortunately, the only way to get that information is through trial and error. I do as much of that work as I can here, and often times adventurous students will help out as well by building something outside of the known size range.
Slowly over time we are building up a library of values so eventually I’ll have perfect recommendations for a wide range of sizes and shapes.
I was a bit sloppy on my technique with this one and the boat ended up being about 3/8 of an inch deeper than I want, but it should still work well, especially because I will mostly be using this as a little rowboat or as one half of a canoe catamaran, both of which will benefit from the slightly rounder bottom shape.
PS. There’s music
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