Project Information
Over this past summer some friends and I decided to build a pair of 'Skin on Frame' canoes. We built the boats using an old Huron canoe as a mold to get the right lines and to steam bend frames over. The structure is entirely Douglas Fir glued and lashed together with nylon sinew, maple pegs, and copper rivets along the gunwale. We also used epoxy to screw/glue in the breast hooks. The skin is ballistic Nylon finished with 5 coats of marine varnish, the fir is oil finished. Upon completion we drove the canoes north, to embark on an 8 day tour of the Bowron lake circuit in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. The Canoes performed admirably, and exceeded our expectations!