Skin on Frame Canoe Build Time Lapse 5. (there’s music!).
I like to have all the ribs pre-cut and prepped and the stringers ready so I can start bending ribs first thing in the morning. Doing it this way means that I can get the ribs in and the stringers on the boat on the same day. This is advantageous because the stringers help to smooth out the shape while the ribs are still slightly pliable. The steam bending is fairly easy and relies mostly on just having really good quality bending oak rather than any special techniques. Surprisingly, most of my students achieve equal results to what you see here, as long as they start with the wood that I recommend.
In addition to managing our website, our video course delivery platform, our online store, doing tech support for students, color correcting videos, shipping orders, filming, and making incredible chocolate chip cookies, Liz has prodigious stringer lashing skills as well!
Even working alone it really doesn’t take that long to tie on the stringers, but it takes even less time with help! The only risk of this is that if you’re working with two people that aren’t pulling with equal tension I’ve actually seen that affect the symmetry of the boat. A great way to check this is to twang a finished lashing like an instrument and if both people have an equal twang then everything should work out fine!
On this build we clamped the stringers on simultaneously from both sides and I think it helped improve the symmetry a bit. You could do the same thing alone just walking back-and-forth.
Build time in minutes:
75 bending in ribs
25 pegging ribs and determining stringer spacing
40 clamping on the stringers
130 tying on the stringers (it took two of us 65 minutes)
20 double checking the rocker
Task time: 4 hrs 50 min
Total build time so far: 20 hrs 35 min
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