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 Posted on April 8th,2010The skin-on-frame outrigger canoe has been coming together in the last week or so. The pieces I formed over the winter months were ready for the keel,which got all its rib mortises. With a first coat of linseed oil on,I began tying the major structural elements together. The arrival of spring is clearly [...]  Posted on February 18th,2010I believe I have mentioned that I work in sub-optimal conditions for a boat-builder,even one focusing on small craft. Our house is modest and my workshop is in the basement,overrun by stuff in storage. I count on being able to work outside,but this gloriously snowy winter (yes,I said “gloriously”–snow [...] Posted on January 19th,2010So we went back to the drawing board for a bit on the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe project,as we noted last month. It was a productive venture –we made some improvements,got a lot of problems solved,and got some useful planning in. We confess,though,that we were eager to get back into [...] Category:Boatbuilding,Skin-on-frame Outrigger Canoe (2010) |  Tags:keel,scarfs,skin on frame,stem |  2 comments |  Trackback this Post Posted on December 23rd,2009One of the aspects to designing and building my own boat is the noodling on very specific problems –how would X work,how do I need to construct Y,how big does Z need to be,etc. To think through these issues I have done some mini-lofting –full-sized drawings of pieces of the [...] | ||
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