As a professional woodworker I admire your supreme craftsmanship which is matched by your presentation in these videos, thank you for sharing it. David in Scotland
To add tumblehome to your canoes, just cut the middle 5 or 6 mortises on the gunals on a 5 to 15 degree angle pointing out. The bottom of the ribs will then need to be wider at the bottom and curve back in the connect to the gunals. This will interfere with the ability to nest, but not every canoe builder wants to do that anyway.
This a great utility canoe if you don´t exceed it´s structural limits; I love it. Nesting? Even better, this could be a flying proa. Kudos Bryan, I remember you when ya had hair.
I really love your work man. I was wondering how you got into this type of work and if it is your full time job? I love seeing people make their passions a career. Great stuff!
Tumblehome is great, great for me rolling my canoe when I'm not careful getting out. Still I wouldn't want a solo without tumblehome. I wonder if I can build an Italian Pattino Rowing Catamaran.
It’s too bad I can’t just post a picture as a reply here because I would walk out to my backyard and put the camera down inside of an old bamboo boat. It’s not a pretty sight, The ribs are black and deformed and some of them are broken. Poor performance over time and also it doesn’t bend well enough to make these Canoes.
@@capefalconkayak ok thank you. I’m having a very bad experience with 840 primo on my Greenland Kayak I just built. I’m doing test panels before I do my boat and this stuff just keeps sagging when I coat it even though it’s drum tight the begin with. Grrr
@@Cad1900 you’re not alone I would say over half the people that use these products have poor results. This winter, I’m probably going to release my skinning and coating system as a separate minicourse on our site for people who want that information but don’t want to buy the entire building course.
@@capefalconkayak Thank you for that. I’m very interested in your skinning course and I believe a lot of people will be. I got primo by mistake btw that is not what you recommended to me. I have a theory on the primo that I’m testing. I believe the weave is so tight that we don’t get full soak thru with the urethane. It’s coated inside for sure but I believe it is not nearly as much as say the 840 tuff would have been. I’ll report back with what I figure out.
Would you be overly bothered by someone building and selling a few canoes in order to balance the cost of their own canoe building adventure? Not talking about a full commercial enterprise.
Yeah that’s not a problem, generally if people want to sell canoes built with our system though I like to see their finished product first just to make sure that it’s representing the brand well. We have a licensing fee for commercial sales as well but it’s not much.
As a professional woodworker I admire your supreme craftsmanship which is matched by your presentation in these videos, thank you for sharing it. David in Scotland
I love your transparency... :)
Thank you. Tumble home is important to me and in my paddling years (many) this is something I find as a favorable feature in most paddling situations.
To add tumblehome to your canoes, just cut the middle 5 or 6 mortises on the gunals on a 5 to 15 degree angle pointing out. The bottom of the ribs will then need to be wider at the bottom and curve back in the connect to the gunals. This will interfere with the ability to nest, but not every canoe builder wants to do that anyway.
Thank you for sharing this boat construction video.
This a great utility canoe if you don´t exceed it´s structural limits; I love it. Nesting? Even better,
this could be a flying proa. Kudos Bryan, I remember you when ya had hair.
I really love your work man. I was wondering how you got into this type of work and if it is your full time job? I love seeing people make their passions a career. Great stuff!
I plan on building a canoe with a custom center console, sea kayak and a perahu style boat.
Tumblehome is great, great for me rolling my canoe when I'm not careful getting out. Still I wouldn't want a solo without tumblehome. I wonder if I can build an Italian Pattino Rowing Catamaran.
Hi am from jamaica can I use bamboo?
Why don't you use bamboo for the ribs like you used to do on the Kayaks?
It’s too bad I can’t just post a picture as a reply here because I would walk out to my backyard and put the camera down inside of an old bamboo boat. It’s not a pretty sight, The ribs are black and deformed and some of them are broken. Poor performance over time and also it doesn’t bend well enough to make these Canoes.
So would this skin be good for small diy camper shells?
Brian, are you costing these with the Skin Boats two-part urethane? Thank you.
I am, but I have a very specific system so it turns out well
@@capefalconkayak ok thank you. I’m having a very bad experience with 840 primo on my Greenland Kayak I just built. I’m doing test panels before I do my boat and this stuff just keeps sagging when I coat it even though it’s drum tight the begin with. Grrr
@@Cad1900 you’re not alone I would say over half the people that use these products have poor results. This winter, I’m probably going to release my skinning and coating system as a separate minicourse on our site for people who want that information but don’t want to buy the entire building course.
@@capefalconkayak Thank you for that. I’m very interested in your skinning course and I believe a lot of people will be. I got primo by mistake btw that is not what you recommended to me. I have a theory on the primo that I’m testing. I believe the weave is so tight that we don’t get full soak thru with the urethane. It’s coated inside for sure but I believe it is not nearly as much as say the 840 tuff would have been. I’ll report back with what I figure out.
never a waist of time 😁
I’d think you could get a pretty flat bottom by using different depths of stringers.
You can encourage a little more flatness but at some point you can’t get the stringers to wrap. I’ve done it, it works.
This my third watch
I'm going to watch it again anyways. 😁
Would you be overly bothered by someone building and selling a few canoes in order to balance the cost of their own canoe building adventure? Not talking about a full commercial enterprise.
Yeah that’s not a problem, generally if people want to sell canoes built with our system though I like to see their finished product first just to make sure that it’s representing the brand well. We have a licensing fee for commercial sales as well but it’s not much.