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we are making a dugout pirogue when time permits. but now we have the bottom on we have these photos in the pirogue section too. time to sand , put the rub rail on and varnish.

this is the next set. Both ends are closed and the jigs are in (3 each).

Hi, me and my friend (seedtick) like to build wooden boats, old Louisiana Boats, Dugout, Pirogues, Lafitte Skiffs , jon Boats, Bateaus, well you get the picture. We make them out of old cypress, we know the wood is rare and the boatbuilders are getting rare also. So we wanted to share some of...

he ant counten the years hes lost. later keith

we have been varnishing for a few days. thefirst is the bow. this is the side with wood floor mats on the horses. breasthook up closr with floor mats

what you call a pirogue may not be what I call a pirogue. a 8 foot pirogue will have about a 16 inch bottom. I make them for food or drinks, but if you can put your butt in it and you want some freeboard, you better be 90 - 100 pounds or less (grand children). now if your hung on the 8 foot...

seedtick, his grand pa was a traveler, so he could have gone over there, or, OR yours came over here when he was gone. will the real paddler stand up? Later Keith ( I doubt anything like that happen since I was Hatched by a ole momma gator :roll:..... It just has to be faith playing a nasty...

i was on paddle trip a few years back and a friend broke his paddle. we went to wally that night and bought two cheap plastic paddles, them walked to the plumbing section and bought a plumbers helper for the wood handle. we cut the hand knob off the paddles and inserted the wood plumers helper...

first photo has no batter boards on the stems and you can see the ends of the 3/4 inch planks. the breasthook is of 2-1/2 inch stock that will be shaped later and you can see the end of the batter board. yea, thats a 17 foot long dugout from a old log sitting on the side, we chop on it now and...

we got the bottom on. breasthook in batter board on all together, now time to varnish

some back ground on the logging. in the first picture the pontoons are 2/3 under water picking up the log. the rig sit about 3/8 in water without a load. the 2 pontoons are 3 foot x 25 foot long. in the last photo @ the log butt the pontoons are underwater at the ends of the 4 inch pipe rail...

I'll hit some spots and let seedtick take over. that tree (log) still had the root ball on it, it was 20 feet and took about 6 hours to cut off. we have a bunch of chain saws, a couple of 42 inchers and some smaller. we leave the butts in the water, they would make a fine table or something...

I can only do one thing at a time, the pictures kill me, I dont do it enought. Bald, most of the stuff is in the mud. "they" been pulling them logs out for more than 50 years, they do got all the easy ones. some times a big storm will roll one up, we rine the banks then. me and tick give-up...

we got every thing in the right place so for. we got 3 ribs in the botton ( and the bottom is up) and the 2 seats are in (glued and nailed and the nails are going to stay in, my choice) we got the bottom on this one should have 2'nd

ha K-Jack, I do appreciate you and all of your sacrifices. come on down, we're about 30 miles from piper / Ponchatoula. we use to have a lot of that marine plywood here from when they made those boat in New orleans for the WWII. the salt water bugs must have killed the trees because 50 years...

Chuck, you got me, you win that one. but just one. a man got to do what a man gotto doo. hope you and your dog spring back. later keith

we have both ends (head stems) installed. we now have 3 jigs installed we got the jigs worked into the right spot and letting the wood relax Later Keith

weight is not everything as is size.you have to grow into whats important (to you). 25 pounds or 100 pounds, to last 2 years or 50 years, to support 200 pounds or 900 pounds. pro and con, what you got to trade. later Keith

a 38 with rat shot sounds good to me. keith :evil:

Ha Steve, I dont do much of that glass stuff BUT, I agree with chuck and BB. more epoxy and wash/ sand ( you need to wash before sanding to get the blush off without being air born). what epoxy are you useing? and no to that 3 day or 3 week wait stuff ( that was what they did in the old days )...