Skin on frame solo canoe build, Day 2

Skin on frame solo canoe, day 2) 6hrs.
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Started the morning by cleaning up the gunwale lamination and running it through the table saw. It’s always interesting splitting a 15 foot long board with an 8 inch curve in it, but with feather boards and a partner that knows what to do and more importantly, what NOT to do on the outfeed side, it seems reasonably safe.
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After that I set up the deck and did the initial layout on the stems. I’m enjoying auditing my own course and I’m steadily taking notes for updates and revisions but for the most part I still like what I’m seeing, which isn’t always the case. There have been quite a few freak outs recently when I watched some of my oldest kayak instructional videos (shot on the fly during classes) and decided I needed to replace a whole section RIGHT NOW, and dragged Liz along for some marathon re-shoot sessions. This week it’s really nice to turn the camera off and just enjoy building something.
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Moving from kayaks to canoes is a little bit weird because I just keep expecting more work than actually exists. The overall system is a bit of a math project but the actual framing is dead simple.
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After last week’s debacle with making too many changes at once on the latest version of the river kayak and missing my chance at nailing the design this spring, I’m forcing myself to work much slower on this boat. I’m leaving the depth and the width of this one identical to my last solo canoe and only increasing the length by 8 inches. I’m also testing out some new modifications to the rib length formula to fill out the bilge a bit amidships where it seemed just a bit slack on the previous version.
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Skin on frame solo canoe, day 2. Build time: 6hrs.

Started the morning by cleaning up the gunwale lamination and running it through the table saw. It’s always interesting splitting a 15 foot long board with an 8 inch curve in it, but with feather boards and a partner that knows what to do and more importantly, what NOT to do on the outfeed side, it seems reasonably safe.

After that I set up the deck and did the initial layout on the stems. I’m enjoying auditing my own course and I’m steadily taking notes for updates and revisions but for the most part I still like what I’m seeing, which isn’t always the case. There have been quite a few freak outs recently when I watched some of my oldest kayak instructional videos (shot on the fly during classes) and decided I needed to replace a whole section RIGHT NOW, and dragged Liz along for some marathon re-shoot sessions. This week it’s really nice to turn the camera off and just enjoy building something.

Moving from kayaks to canoes is a little bit weird because I just keep expecting more work than actually exists. The overall system is a bit of a math project but the actual framing is dead simple.

After last week’s debacle with making too many changes at once on the latest version of the river kayak and missing my chance at nailing the design this spring, I’m forcing myself to work much slower on this boat. I’m leaving the depth and the width of this one identical to my last solo canoe and only increasing the length by 8 inches. I’m also testing out some new modifications to the rib length formula to fill out the bilge a bit amidships where it seemed just a bit slack on the previous version.