Small Wooden Boats and More

I spent the last week at Scout Camp.  In fact, I probably should write about that, but what I really need to is finish this boat.  Part of the process, at least for me, is writing about what I have accomplished.  Especially since writing about the boat has been instrumental in helping me make decisions…

The Lazy Weekend Canoe is officially a boat now.  I didn’t have much time to work on it this weekend, but I did get a chance to put on the final gunwale.  That was the last major piece that needed to be installed.

This week Eliza and Abby are competing in the clogging national championships at Lagoon.  Brooklyn is competing next week, but she has classes that are competing this week.  This means that most of my family is out of town this weekend. I assumed that I would spend most of the day just watching Sam, but…

This week was a good one for progress on the canoe.  I was able to fit all of the internal seat frames (badly), which then allowed me to get the bottom traced and cut out, and the bottom butt blocks installed.

I’ve been really worried about joining pieces of wood with the Lazy Weekend canoe. I have already written, not one, but two articles on joining plywood. I was even more concerned about joining long pieces of lumber. Yes, I realize that seems unlikely, but it is still true. I had hoped to get around needing…

One of the major reasons that I built a Puddle Duck Racer, and then a Mouse Boat was that both of these boats are under 8 feet long. That meant that I could easily purchase lumber that was as long or longer than the length of the boat. I did this because I assumed that…

Another weekend, a bit more progress on the Lazy Weekend Canoe. I didn’t have a lot of time, but I did manage to put together just enough time to put the chine logs on. Bending the chines did reveal that one of the pieces of lumber that I hoped to use as a chine log…