Cedar Strip Canoe

Super job, I love the beauty of the wood showing like it does.

-- Dan Wiggins

Absolutely gorgeous. I love cedar canoes.

-- Bill from Lithia Springs, GA I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.

Really a nice job. Love wooden canoes, tenders, boats. If you had to guess, how much do you think it weighs?

-- Rich in Richmond

Thanks Dan, Bill, and Rich.

I think it weighs about 75 to 80 pounds. I am still able to lift and carry it on my shoulders bracing it with the center yoke, which is about the balance point. I have been thinking of adding a thin keel – it is a pain to keep it in a straight path in a lake when paddling by myself unless I am in the center on my knees. I am more of a woodworker than a canoest. I got the plans from one of the how to build a strip built canoe books – I want to say the author’s name was Gilpatrick. I’ve loaned the book out and never got it back. I need to add books to my list of things not to loan out which includes wifes and chainsaws. I still have my chainsaws. Now I am off to look at Bill’s and Rich’s stuff.

-- Fred, Georgia

Looks great. This has been on my project to do list for a long time. For now it is going to stay on my list, but some day…

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Wooden boats are so beautiful, especially when the wood is allowed to show and not painted over. Let’s go fishing!

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I found this online: Gilpatrick, Gil. Building a Strip Canoe, DeLorme, Publishing Co., 1985 (see: http://www.wcha.org/build_restore/plans.html)

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Very great project!

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Beautiful job Fred. It looks great!

Thanks for posting it.

-- Martin, Kansas

Thanks again, and thanks mmh, those were the plans I used. I am pleased that my memory remain fairly intact. Building the canoe gave me a lot of pleasure – especially seeing and running my hand over the curve of the hull. To me if you look at something and it makes you want to touch it – you have been won over! Thanks again folks.

-- Fred, Georgia

I just have to get going on my boat project after seeing yours!

Something I did not mention, was that I ripped all the cedar strips on a Sears radial arm saw. Boy when I finally got a table saw I was in heaven. Life is Good!

-- Fred, Georgia

Wow what a Nice Canoe

-- Jim, Kentucky

Really nice looking canoe. I have started my first. Hope it lurns out as nice as yours.

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Buck

Wow !

-- "Even small steps makes a distance." (Shawn Phillips, musician)

Love it! it is every man and boy’s dream to have one of these.

-- Greg, Southern Oregon, www.oregonburls.com

Super nice canoe well done

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Fred, I assume the polyester held up well since you built the canoe in 86. I built one several years ago using MAS epoxy. Polyester would be much cheaper. Did you use the clear brushing gel. Or the regular laminating resin. I also ripped my strips on a sears RAS. I cut them proud and ran them through a planer.

-- Acts: 2:38