AldenWitham22
Curious about Wooden Canoes
I finally have time to work on my 10' canoe project again and remembered why I stopped last fall.
The boat seems to have lost it's shape over time. When I picked it up it was about the inwale was pulled away from the yoke by about an inch. As I fought to get the finish and fiberglass off that distance seems to have multiplied.
Most of the movement was in the center 2-3' where I have a number of broken ribs.
It seems to me I could either work the new ribs up from either end in my best approximation of the original shape or I could try to find someone with the same boat and get a mould.
Does anybody have books or articles they recommend that cover this specifically? Even better would be someone in New Hampshire that would let me buy them beer and pick their brains on this.
-Alden
The boat seems to have lost it's shape over time. When I picked it up it was about the inwale was pulled away from the yoke by about an inch. As I fought to get the finish and fiberglass off that distance seems to have multiplied.
Most of the movement was in the center 2-3' where I have a number of broken ribs.
It seems to me I could either work the new ribs up from either end in my best approximation of the original shape or I could try to find someone with the same boat and get a mould.
Does anybody have books or articles they recommend that cover this specifically? Even better would be someone in New Hampshire that would let me buy them beer and pick their brains on this.
-Alden
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