Category: Boat Building
Put the final touches on the ultralite skin-on-frame canoe over the past few weeks. I had pre cut and pre bent the 12′ rub rails along with the…
After glueing up the thwart and floor boards it was time to finish the wooden frame. I used 3 coats of clear gloss rust-oleum spar varnish, and plan…
Put in the last of the wooden pieces including the thwart and floorboards. I used western red cedar for the floorboards. The plans only call for the two…
Everything I know about woodworking tells me that this breasthook glue joint will fail. But, Platt Monfort knows more about boat building than I do, and the Snowshoe…
I had help from my wonderful mother with bending and glue the ribs for the ultralite canoe. Somehow I escaped furniture design school without ever steam bending wood,…
Well, now I’m further along with the Snowshoe 12 canoe than I got with the Classic 12 sailboat I tried building in Tempe. Unfortunately, the living room is…
Ripped the stringers, gunwales, inwales, rubwales, and keelson all from one 5.5″x12′ board of poplar. They say you can even make these boats out of 2x4s but I…