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Its been a while, but I remembered that I needed to update my post here. I've launched the boat, once so far. Had a good paddle mothers day weekend last may (yes, I know that was a long time ago, haha). My folks came in to San Antonio and we took the boat up to Canyon Lake for a test run. Had...

Thanks guys! I think the seats are actually the same size, but visually it does look smaller now that you mention it. I can't recall the actual dimensions off the top of my head, I've got too much pharmacology running circles through my brain. Exam coming up on friday! :shock: That front...

Well, I have to say its been a long build but Its pretty much done! I still have spacers to make to cover up my carriage bolts, but those are petty details. I had some issues with the front seat, but i finally ironed those out and got the front seat installed. That makes for a ready to paddle...

Got a little more free time and did a trial fitting of my seats. Pretty excited, but then after they were both in I realized a little mistake. I cut "temporary spacers" to figure out what distance away from the gunnels I wanted the seats, and I cut all of them the same length. Didn't account for...

Had some great weather here for varnishing so I had to get after it! First up, prepping the inside to protect it from varnish drips… I'll come back tomorrow and sand on that stuff a little, and then most likely put the final coat on there.

So I didnt have as many pictures as I thought on the camera that weren't already moved to my computer. Lets go with accessories fisrt. Who builds a canoe and then doesnt want his own custom paddle to move around with right? :) Yoke is installed, inside has varnish. I didnt get any detailed...

And we continue!! Gunnels on, carry handles in there, decks in place. Ready for me to start cleaning her up Jimmying things around to figure out where to put my seats Got my varnish on the outside of the hull!! I need to go find my camera to download the rest of the pictures. I moved a...

I have to apologize for not updating this. Boat is almost finished!! Lets see, where did i leave off…. seats! [/URL] Got those inner gunnels attached on there too. Made these out of cypress, even though I know its a softer wood. Putting my decks together. They are cherry on the outsides...

Its been a while since I've posted on this one! Made some good progress since my last post so here goes! Last picture I had up showed the inside as bare wood I believe. Here she is with the second layer of glass going down on the inside. Of course that means a FIRST layer of glass had to go on...

Oh, and Chuck, I blame this site for getting me into this awful disease known as boat building. I wanted to make something to duck hunt from a few years back, and I stumbled onto this site. So many UJ's pirogues built on here so I put one of those together. Had so much fun doing it that I wanted...

Well, I grew up in Clear lake, opposite side of town from you. I currently live in San Antonio.

Yup, Mike beat me to it. Thanks! As to building one in two weekends........ :lol: Maybe if you were retired (no offense to those who are, you have plenty of time to do hobbies!!) and built it from a kit. Since I made my own forms, they werent precise as they could have been had I ordered them...

That went on fairly painlessly. That was 6oz, and then i put a second layer of 4oz just covering the bottom surface. I trimmed away the excess that hung down along the sides. Once that was done, it was time to start working towards getting her off the strongback and into a cradle! Since...

Fitting the external stems didnt go as smoothly as I would have liked. Like other things with this build, it all worked out later, but during this part I was frustrated with it. I think part of my frustration came from my strips not all fitting exactly to each form (especially towards the...

Not that i had an oval shaped football, I received some advice to put my light basswood strip around this football BEFORE putting the football on the boat, so I took heed of the advice. And then it was time to put that bad boy in and get to fitting strips around it! Lots of "guess, cut...

Well, famous last words from my previous post "making good time now". That crow sure tasted bad, 2 years later, haha! Progress has certainly been made since that last post, but its not quite done yet. Life did a nice job of getting in the way for quite a while there but I'm back to working...

Been busy this past week or so making good progress. With the stems dry, it was time to start shaping them My Shinto came in the mail which was pretty exciting, so i finally got to shape my forms and give them a nice taper. That thing will really take some wood off!! Now that the stems...

Saturday was a productive day, got all my strips cut! Went over to my buddy's house and got started around 1030 and worked till the sun went down. Finished up just as the sun was setting so finally, i had strips to start messing with. Loaded up and headed home I know the shop in the...

I've since gone back and modified my strongback a little, making it more sturdy and adding "accessories". I'll have to snap some pictures here soon. Got held up a little once that was complete because i had my cedar but nowhere to cut it. Then i found out a co-worker had a table saw, planer...

So I got started on this boat building sickness from this very site, building an UJ Piroge. I enjoyed building that boat so much, I knew I had caught the bug. I've always wanted a canoe so i could take a girlfriend out, or take a river camping trip with buddies and the likes. I looked and...