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When you pre-saturate and or glass the pieces prior to epoxying them all together, does that mean you have to wash the blush off and sand each joint before assembly? One more, you mentioned laminating the rub rails with glass and epoxy. Do you mean you are going to wet out a strip of...

Got the rails and bottom on. I kinda like the shape. The final dimensions ended up being 13'-6 LOA, 28" max beam at the bottom, and 35 1/2" beam at the rail. Had I started from scratch, I would have tried to make it a little bigger, because my big plan to have them nest is not going to work...

thanks for the great tip about the ribs, but as you surmised, I already did it the hard way. Had to buy another sheet of 1/4 ply but I have another project in the wings so no big deal. I will be putting the rails and the bottom on this afternoon. Post pix later.

Got started on my second pirogue, The "Bayou Skiff Lite". No offence, Uncle John. Like I said, I'm going by TLAR here. I made a little sled for my table saw to make some scarfs to stretch the ribs that needed some extra length. Two of them needed that treatment. I guess I will have to...

I got an email from Uncle John Last night saying the kits are ready to ship, and they seem to me to be a very fair price. I'm gonna start one soon. :D

Thank you for the suggestions and the great pictures showing how you do it. Looking at the photos of those beautiful planks of solid cypress being torqued into those curves makes bossin" around a little sheet of luan seem not so hard. I will definitely give your method a try, and I'm sure it...

I was wondering, Seedtick mentioned the fact the rocker in the stern will be less than the bow because the stern isn't being pinched in as severely with a square stern. If I were to put more angle on the transom than the ribs, would that get some of that rocker back? Is that even that...

That alone was reason enough for me to buy two of Uncle John's kits, to save myself all the trial and error, and error, and error... trying to get all those angles correct. Well worth the money in my opinion. I am going to include an image to show why I am so impressed with the shallow draft...

Oh, yes sir, that is the case (45 degree rake) and I have indeed already epoxied both stems to one side, so I will have to cut one stem off and change that angle to the 10 to 15 degrees. That is how I came up with the 13'-6 instead of the 14'-2 I started with. My math might be off a bit...

Thanks for your replies gentlemen, I did buy a three rib kit (the son's boat)and a four rib kit from Uncle John's and I am going to use the four rib kit for this one, although I will probably need a "rib stretcher" if I square the stern. Concerning the angle of the transom, I have it drawn at 13...

Hello all, I have been searching the posts and reading up on square back pirogues and skiffs, lots of good info, and I am about to start # 2 when I get off this tug boat next week, so here are a few questions. I drew the plan view on my little CAD program of a pirogue 14'-2 long x 30" wide at...

First Float We still need to paint and do a few other things(gonna add an inwale), but she floats! We borrowed that Hobie Kayak in the photo as a support vessel. The kayak was a little bit faster in the sprint, but the pirogue made up for it with the comfort level, plus the kayak drew about...

I don't have a suitable spot to hang the bamboo as you suggested, so I am trying to "splint" them. I left them as seen for about a week, unwrapped them and re-wrapped them where they needed some further straightening. It seems to be working.

Wondering if anyone has had any experience bowfishing out of their kayak, canoe, or pirogue, especially in Florida? I think when I get my pirogue finished, I am going to give it a try on the shallow flats of Tampa Bay. Mullet, sheepshead, black drum, rays, flounder and even cobia are commonly...

Good info, thanks gentlemen. Since we are building two of 'em, I guess it would be prudent to get a kayak and single blade paddle to see which we like, and then go investigate my neighbor's stand of bamboo for a couple push poles. He said, "help yourself", so I think I'll take him up on it...

Thank you for the response, Kind Sir. Three coats in three days, does that mean washing/ sanding between coats of graphite? I bought the plan for your well thought out and comfy looking seat, and we are making them out of the sawmill cypress, so after they dry out, they should be pretty...

Thanks for the good word, and as far as putting the "pretty" side up, I thought since the bottom is gonna be glassed and painted anyway. I have a question about the graphite mixed in the epoxy for a bottom coat. Is that the final coat or second to last coat? I guess you don't add so much as to...

I have a few pics of the new Uncle John's Pirogues my son and I have started. We are using Luan for the sides and 1/4" for the bottom, leaving the good sides inside. Cypress for rub rails/gunnels. We have a sawmill nearby, so we re-sawed the rough cut cypress for the gunnels. We inletted the...