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    Building a ugly boat

    What else would you call it? Seriously, great thread and great boat. So your water still runs downhill eh?
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    wood cutting tool of choice

    Production wood cutting I cut ply on a special table which has a top of insulating foam; any table can be topped with foam like this. This allows use of any hand-held circular saw provided it has a clean-cutting blade and a zero clearance baseplate per JEM's post. The blade depth is set 1/8"...
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    MY NEW WORK BENCH

    Nice idea Preacher! After my garage fire the cleanup crew built me a fine workbench. like yours, it is in 2 sections 8 ft each, for a total of 16 ft of workspace, but it is attached to the wall and can hinge down should I ever want to do something as morally questionable as parking a car in the...
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    The Wood is the Filling , Not the boat.

    Wood rules. Glass is to hold beer in a convenient shape Made my early boats from door skin while I learned to design. went through the sketch-build-paddle-cuss-burn cycle until I had it figured out then switched to marine ply. Actually, door skin was fine at first but the quality went down...
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    This is why I build my own (in wood)

    Yeah! It's not nice of me but I love it! and then when we hit the water the young bucks have trouble keeping up; a wood boat just seems to have the legs of a plastic one the same size. The seat, by the way, is red cedar and pine, hinged in the middle, and slides fore-aft, which is nice cos' I...
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    This is why I build my own (in wood)

    Here's a picture of Dora: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/attach ... 1small.jpg Marine ply, cdn$100 to build, 22 lb all up including the fancy seat, no glass and very little epoxy (just used for one seam). One advantage of a very light boat is, you can treat it carefully, I just tuck her...
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    Canadian Canoe

    My dictionary says canoe is from the Spanish canoa. I think it is more likely to descend from the French canot, meaning small open boat. The French opened up Canada and discovered these craft so they would have been first to name them. I posted the following in the Boat Design Forum earlier...
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    Fingerjoint Splices in Plywood

    I think the idea of the fingerjoint is a good one for kits, it pretty well ensures the plank parts will be glued together in alignment. It isn't worth the trouble otherwise and doesn't look great either. The best looking joints I ever did were scarfs modified so the outer veneer was butted for a...
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    Naming a Canoe

    I finished my first respectable canoe last year and invited my paddling buddy over to drool. He brought his daughter with him, and she gushed "oh, it's adorable" So Dora the boat was named.