Boat Building

A peace canoe that I built this summer.  It’s not tippy.  We christened it “banana split.”

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Pine strip, not cedar strip, kayak

This is the first boat-building post to show up on my site, but it’s actually the third kayak I’ve built.  The first two were “one-sheet” plywood stitch and glue kayaks, each 92 inches in length.  This boat will be just short of twelve feet.  It is made of pine, cut from a wide board to get a nice quarter-sawn grain.UPDATE: I’m nearly finished, and have already had this kayak in the water! (It was an exciting moment) (more…)