strip canoe

[dan petroski]

i'm looking for good ceder strip canoe plans. full size forms and about 16 ft. any ideas?

[Gary Kvasnicka]

Dan,

Try this link, I want to build a 16' Prospector.
http://www.bearmountainboats.com/

For kits of Bear Mountain designs and others try
http://www.noahsmarine.com/

Good luck and post pics of your build progress.

[Mac McQuinn]

About 3 years ago I help build a 16' canoe from a kit for a local fund raiser and we used this company's Abenaki canoe kit.

.http://www.newfound.com/abenaki16.htm

I have built several strippers from scratch and the kit we used was excellent quality with no shortcomings. We used a kit due to time constraints and I would not hesitate to use this company's products again.

Mac

[Neil Davie]

Try this link. They have plans available and help in building. www.canoe-kayak.org
Also, I have a book at my other place, written by one of the members of this org, (cant remember the name now, but last name starts with a g, that has about 10 or so plans included in the book, along with details on building. I'll start on a canoe this spring. Book cost about $10 used at amazon. If pressed I can spend the time to find the name/author, pm me and I'll research the book.

[Charles Green]

I built the Freedom 17' from Bear Mountain boats. I really like it. The plans were full size for the forms.
I recommend you pick up the book Canoecraft if you haven't already.

[Nate Carey]

I second Mac's endorsement of Newfound Woodworks.

[dan petroski]

i want to stay away from bear mountain boats. i tried to join their news group and they banned me? never done buisness with them and never will.

[Quinn McCarthy]

I have a book called building a strip canoe by gil gilpatrick. Great book. 8 different plans in all. A friend has built a couple from there. There is one in there called the puddle duck I believe that I would like to build.

Hope that helps.

Quinn

[dan petroski]

visited a fellow that builds bow and plank canoes.very nice but the building of the form is very extensive. i want to build the strong back and forms because our pastor wants to build one also so i will be going with the strip design because of the relatively simple mold building.

do you leave the edges of the mold stations as cut or do you bevel them to conform to the shape of the canoe

[Charles Green]

I beveled my forms so that the strips lay flat on them. I suggest buying a Japanese Shinto rasp. It is good for that as well as shaping your stems as well. I have found it to be the ideal tool for a lot of shaping in general woodworking as well.
The coarse side hogs material off pretty fast and the smoother side doesn't take too much sanding to get rid of the marks.

[dan petroski]

Charles ...did you use a streight edge of some kind to blend t he forms?

[Charles Green]

No I just kept using a strip to test it until it would lay flat against the form.

[Randy Davidson]

i want to stay away from bear mountain boats. i tried to join their news group and they banned me? never done business with them and never will.

That's funny Dan because the same thing happened to me several months ago. Tried to signup on the forum and said I had been banned. Hey, they can keep their forum for all I care.

[Gary Kvasnicka]

Quote:
Originally Posted by dan petroski
i want to stay away from bear mountain boats. i tried to join their news group and they banned me? never done business with them and never will.

That's funny Dan because the same thing happened to me several months ago. Tried to signup on the forum and said I had been banned. Hey, they can keep their forum for all I care.

I have been member of Bear Mountains forum for years. I have gotten a lot of helpful info there. Maybe it is some kind of automatic anti-spam gone wrong.

[dan petroski]

ya it looked like a good site for a canoe challenged person