Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I have been updating the Gallery with pictures of the build just no updates. No excuses though… Work through 10/5: End Stems: The strips at each end where planed flush with the ash inner stems. 6 strips of 1/8″ thick ash were laminated [...]
Over the past week or so I finished stripping the hull. Pretty typical stripping. Of note was the transition from the sides to the bottom. On the longer 16 ft Prospector I can usually use 1″ wide strips from the sheer right to the keel-line. For the 13-footer I used [...]
Last thursday, 9/6/07 we started construction of Robert’s canoe. The design reuses most of the Prospector 16 forms but I needed to make new end forms and shim the strongback from 0 to 1″ to adjust the forms to the modified design. Inner stems were made by laminating 1/8″ thick [...]
This week we started a new project: a canoe for a customer in Florida. Delivery is scheduled for the end of October. This canoe is based on the original 16′ Prospector’s lines but redrawn to have an overall length of 13′. It has the same 35″ beam. The ends were [...]
