Roybrew, i thought of you.

[Thomas H]

Roy, my wife and I put this puzzle together and used velcro to hang it from the ceiling of our camper over our heads. That canoe reminds be of that stunner you made!

 

[Roybrew]

Thank you. I'm hoping to start another this year, after I get my shop finished.

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[Northern Dancer]

I like the real thing - free, majestic, and inviting.
But I agree, like Thomas H, the "Roybrew" canoe is a stunner. ​

 

[Roybrew]

I'd like to have a light canoe like your Souris River. I'm just to cheap to drop that much on one. I'm like my Dad was, "What? How much? Why I can make one for cheaper then that." Of course after all the expenses and time, a person be better off buying one. But it's fun. I've read on a canoe forum about someone building a 16 foot strip canoe with a finished weight of close to 40 pounds. He is a very experienced builder tho.

I want to build a 13 to 14 foot solo for my wife, then a 16 foot solo for me. I want to make them as light as possible also. Most of the strip canoes are constructed out of 1/4" thick wood strips. I shaved mine down to 3/16". This reduced the weight by 25% on the wood. I was told I'd be fine since I was using a harder wood then most, but the wood I used was 25% heavier, so I think it equaled out. But what I didn't realize was, when I was shaving the hull smooth, after glueing the strips together and before sanding, I was making the strips even thinner. When I purchased Ted Moore's book and did some reading, I already had the outside of the hull smoothed, sanded and ready to glass. I had no idea idea how thin the hull was, and if only in spots! [emoji54]. I still had the inside to smooth which would remove even more wood. So now when we take it out, I have a fear of it splitting open like a ripe watermelon [emoji525]. Ooh I like watermelon [emoji39].

I have even considered, well thought of anyhow, building a canoe out of kevlar. But this would require lots of mold building prep work, research and some of that green stuff [emoji383]. But that's just me thinking.

Thanks for compliments. I appreciate it.
Roy

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[Thomas H]

I'd like to have a light canoe like your Souris River. I'm just to cheap to drop that much on one. I'm like my Dad was, "What? How much? Why I can make one for cheaper then that." Of course after all the expenses and time, a person be better off buying one. But it's fun. I've read on a canoe forum about someone building a 16 foot strip canoe with a finished weight of close to 40 pounds. He is a very experienced builder tho.

I want to build a 13 to 14 foot solo for my wife, then a 16 foot solo for me. I want to make them as light as possible also. Most of the strip canoes are constructed out of 1/4" thick wood strips. I shaved mine down to 3/16". This reduced the weight by 25% on the wood. I was told I'd be fine since I was using a harder wood then most, but the wood I used was 25% heavier, so I think it equaled out. But what I didn't realize was, when I was shaving the hull smooth, after glueing the strips together and before sanding, I was making the strips even thinner. When I purchased Ted Moore's book and did some reading, I already had the outside of the hull smoothed, sanded and ready to glass. I had no idea idea how thin the hull was, and if only in spots! [emoji54]. I still had the inside to smooth which would remove even more wood. So now when we take it out, I have a fear of it splitting open like a ripe watermelon [emoji525]. Ooh I like watermelon [emoji39].

I have even considered, well thought of anyhow, building a canoe out of kevlar. But this would require lots of mold building prep work, research and some of that green stuff [emoji383]. But that's just me thinking.

Thanks for compliments. I appreciate it.
Roy

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Roy, you have more talent in your mistakes than I have on my best day!

 

[Roybrew]

Ha. You just learn how to hide them. But thank you.

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[Northern Dancer]

I'd like to have a light canoe like your Souris River. I'm just to cheap to drop that much on one. I'm like my Dad was, "What? How much? Why I can make one for cheaper then that." Of course after all the expenses and time, a person be better off buying one. But it's fun. I've read on a canoe forum about someone building a 16 foot strip canoe with a finished weight of close to 40 pounds. He is a very experienced builder tho.

I want to build a 13 to 14 foot solo for my wife, then a 16 foot solo for me. I want to make them as light as possible also. Most of the strip canoes are constructed out of 1/4" thick wood strips. I shaved mine down to 3/16". This reduced the weight by 25% on the wood. I was told I'd be fine since I was using a harder wood then most, but the wood I used was 25% heavier, so I think it equaled out. But what I didn't realize was, when I was shaving the hull smooth, after glueing the strips together and before sanding, I was making the strips even thinner. When I purchased Ted Moore's book and did some reading, I already had the outside of the hull smoothed, sanded and ready to glass. I had no idea idea how thin the hull was, and if only in spots! [emoji54]. I still had the inside to smooth which would remove even more wood. So now when we take it out, I have a fear of it splitting open like a ripe watermelon [emoji525]. Ooh I like watermelon [emoji39].

I have even considered, well thought of anyhow, building a canoe out of kevlar. But this would require lots of mold building prep work, research and some of that green stuff [emoji383]. But that's just me thinking.

Thanks for compliments. I appreciate it.
Roy

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-----> It weighs in at 42 pounds and can carry 800 pounds plus. It wasn't my first canoe. You nailed it on the head - I just couldn't afford one when. I've had a few over the years and one of them was a Coleman canoe. Not from the Coleman Company. There was a man [interesting enough he is a client now] who made canoes in our town. It was stylish, well built, and weighed as much as a tank. You couldn't sink that thing unless you blew it up. I was exhausted every time I had to portage. Finally, I bought the SR.

Lots of snow coming our way this evening and continuing into late Monday night. Goodie

 

[Thomas H]

-----> It weighs in at 42 pounds and can carry 800 pounds plus. It wasn't my first canoe. You nailed it on the head - I just couldn't afford one when. I've had a few over the years and one of them was a Coleman canoe. Not from the Coleman Company. There was a man [interesting enough he is a client now] who made canoes in our town. It was stylish, well built, and weighed as much as a tank. You couldn't sink that thing unless you blew it up. I was exhausted every time I had to portage. Finally, I bought the SR.

Lots of snow coming our way this evening and continuing into late Monday night. Goodie

We've had some snow also, picture shows accumulation. Giggle!

 

[Northern Dancer]

We've had some snow also, picture shows accumulation. Giggle!

We had snow today - a foot of the stuff blowing and howling around. The whole of Toronto is just about shut down. I haven't seen this situation for some time. Schools, offices, services, and just about everything else are closed. On my day off too.

 

[Thomas H]

We are out again trying to do some cold weather camping. We just can't hit it right. Day temps average mid 50's, nights average mid 20's. We should have gotten out 2 weeks ago, temps near and below 0°F with wind chills in the -45°F range. Well, we'll keep trying!

P.S.

What's going on? I don't believe Climate change is affecting us like this. January in this part of the US should be cold!

 

[Roybrew]

We've had a couple of inches of snow. Last night on the way to work there was just a little snow creeping on to there road. This morning the entire parking lot at work was solid ice. Snow and ice covered the road until I got to my home county line. The county I live in keeps the roads better. Snow and ice covered subdivision roads. Cold and breezy outside.
This is a normal for this time of year.

Be safe Thomas.

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[Northern Dancer]

I guess it is normal. If I'm going to camp out in the winter snow is needed to make the experience authentic by having the real stuff. If I camped out somewhere on the coast in Florida can I count the white sand as snow? Just sayin.

 

[Roybrew]

I used to go to Florida about this time of year to visit my parents. They were a migratory retired couple. They would leave Michigan about Thanksgiving, and migrate to a little camper set up on a retirement RV lot, and stay till about Easter then head back north. I would go down there and visit for a week. Wow was it nice and warm, on the gulf side, just below Tampa Florida. When it hits the month of April, it starts getting very warm [emoji3062]. I asked one of the locals how it was there in the summer. He replied "You sweat, a lot". Whew to hot for me. I guess I'm sort of a temperate person.

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