samb
LOVES Wooden Canoes
Having made or worked with stitch and glue, modern strippers, cedar/canvas and wide board I have decided that a long term project should be a traditional strip built.
This will probably take years and probably not even start for some time – but everyone is allowed to dream so it’s time to start thinking.
Ideally I want to build a small boat. I am limited for space so need to be mindful that 14’ is the largest I can practically deal with, (but at times that would mean moving from side to side under the boat) but I have read on the dragonfly canoe pages that #86 was a 12’x30”x12”. So, apart from not being able to get hold of one of these to measure it, what disadvantages (from the making point of view) would there be to making a 12’ boat?
I could borrow a 14’x30x12 Peterborough boat to measure. As the width and depth are the same, would I be able to shorten the distance by measuring stations at 14” and reducing them to 12”spacing and then fair up all the lines?
There are many more questions and thoughts I will need to resolve but building a mould is the first thing I need to get my head round. Most of my projects spend years going round and round in my head before any visible progress is made. I have read all I can find here on the forum, and watched the Walter Walker film on you tube many times. Are there any other sources of information that you know of?
Could I have your thoughts and opinions please?
Thanks.
Sam
This will probably take years and probably not even start for some time – but everyone is allowed to dream so it’s time to start thinking.
Ideally I want to build a small boat. I am limited for space so need to be mindful that 14’ is the largest I can practically deal with, (but at times that would mean moving from side to side under the boat) but I have read on the dragonfly canoe pages that #86 was a 12’x30”x12”. So, apart from not being able to get hold of one of these to measure it, what disadvantages (from the making point of view) would there be to making a 12’ boat?
I could borrow a 14’x30x12 Peterborough boat to measure. As the width and depth are the same, would I be able to shorten the distance by measuring stations at 14” and reducing them to 12”spacing and then fair up all the lines?
There are many more questions and thoughts I will need to resolve but building a mould is the first thing I need to get my head round. Most of my projects spend years going round and round in my head before any visible progress is made. I have read all I can find here on the forum, and watched the Walter Walker film on you tube many times. Are there any other sources of information that you know of?
Could I have your thoughts and opinions please?
Thanks.
Sam