Build your own skin-on-frame kayaks and canoes
Cutting up bending oak for this particular boat kind of sucked. I realized that the wood I had been saving for this project had more inclusions than I thought, so I decided to dig to the bottom of the pile where I abandoned some decent boards a few years ago. I planed and sliced up "Video: Bending oak problems and a new rib-rounding jig" Continue reading
Thanks again to @chbecksvoort49 for this tenon cutting method! ___This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed.See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »
Am I the only person who is surprised by how long it takes to make a good set of canoe seats? If I’m being honest, it probably takes me 16 hours to complete a pair of seats with seat backs, varnish, webbing stapled on, everything. It seems like it should be a one day job. "St. Lawrence River Skiff: Building the seat frames" Continue reading
I’ve been lucky enough to avoid epoxy and varnish for most of my boat building life, although both are making more frequent appearances since we developed the pedal drive adapter box. The plan here was just to varnish the box, but I decided to do the bottom board as well just to keep it from "St. Lawrence River Skiff: Varnishing the drive box and keel" Continue reading
Sound on! Yesterday I disassembled the temporary framing so I could bevel the laminated frames to match the angle of the stringers. After that, I went on a somewhat nerve-racking lightening spree, thinning out various scantling as much as I dared. Next step is to reassemble everything permanently. Song is is razzmatazz by Jules Gaia "Timelapse: St. Lawrence River Skiff: Disassembling the dry fit…
Woke up to find this in my workshop this morning: Apparently Liz really wants the St. Lawrence River Skiff to have a Viking figurehead… ___ This post was originally featured on our Instagram feed. See the original post and discussion here. Follow Cape Falcon Kayak on Instagram »
“Hi Brian, I saw your email today about the updates to the canoe course and it reminded me that I never sent a report on the trip to the Quetico / Boundary Waters. It was the first long journey with the canoe and it shined! We were in the Quetico for 11 days in May "Quetico Trip Report" Continue reading
Yesterday‘s project was working out the seating and flotation for the St. Lawrence River Skiff. The geometry for the pedal drive forces me to make a lot of compromise that I’m not 100% thrilled about but it is what it is. The seats are a bit lower than I prefer for pedaling, and a bit "St. Lawrence River Skiff: Working out seating and flotation" Continue reading
Yesterday started out with drawing up another station from the table of offsets to check the shaping toward the ends. I’m not planning on laminating another frame here, this was just to check the lines and also to inform my choices for beveling the stringers towards the ends of the boat. On the worksheet, I’m "St. Lawrence River Skiff: Drawing up another station" Continue reading
First dry fit of the parts for the St. Lawrence River Skiff. Everything here is just held together by clamps and screws so I can see the shape and plan for seating, and also find and mark the bevel angles for the frames. A very annoying issue as always is figuring out how I’m going "Video: St. Lawrence River Skiff: First dry fit of parts" Continue reading