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sweet looking boat.
thanks for sharing.
Hope you find peace, love and happiness,
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Fantastic. I hope you have many great hours on the water
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12-16-2012, 08:23 PM
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I am enjoying it. Hopefully my wrist will cooperate and let me get back to it this spring.
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That is gorgeous! Great work, Gary. This is a project that is on my bucket list as well. Where do you live in KY and what lake did you take it out on?
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I live near Versailles and take the canoe out to Beaver Lake west of Lawrenceburg. You're welcome to stop by sometime and see it if you want
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Nice work Gary. Looks like you laid up the strips without staples,I don't see the tiny holes.I laid up the strips on my canoe that way.I made " clothespins" from scrap to hold the strips. If I ever build another I think I might experiment with pin nails. Should be able to pull them from the back side after the forms are stripped.
My canoe is 6" longer than yours at 15'-6".
I couldn't get ash long enough, used white oak for the gunwales.
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mike4244 said:
Nice work Gary. Looks like you laid up the strips without staples,I don't see the tiny holes.I laid up the strips on my canoe that way.I made " clothespins" from scrap to hold the strips. If I ever build another I think I might experiment with pin nails. Should be able to pull them from the back side after the forms are stripped.
My canoe is 6" longer than yours at 15'-6".
I couldn't get ash long enough, used white oak for the gunwales.
mike
The ash boards I used for my gunwales were only 8' long. I used scarf joints to join two pieces together. I did use staples and they are visible but not distracting.
It was the most fun and challenging project I built
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Bump for another year
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When are you going to take it out for the Bowron circuit?
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12-03-2013, 03:27 PM
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