Author: Rory

I've completed a Cape Falcon 66 tandem canoe in yellow cedar and an F1 kayak with yellow cedar ribs and coaming. I'm still keen to build even more boats! Long time fixer, tinkerer and builder of other things. Keen outdoors enthusiast in all seasons. I got into paddling (canoes and sea kayaks) when I met my wife in Ontario many years ago and until building the canoe we have never owned our own boats. I find the idea of skin on frame building really exciting.
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Rory’s F1 Build with Yellow Cedar Ribs, Vancouver, BC

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Vancouver, B.C., Canada It’s Early August…I’m standing in my garage taking stock of the offcuts and leftovers from my yellow cedar tandem canoe build. I find myself doing some mental math and realising I have enough yellow cedar left over to make a steam bent cockpit coaming and about 45 F1 ribs..! I was first...

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16’4” Yellow Cedar Tandem Tripping Canoe, Vancouver, BC

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NOTE from Brian: Full design specs, scantlings, and detailed paddling impressions of this canoe are available in the Various Canoe Examples Chapter of our Skin on Frame Canoe video course. Vancouver, B.C., Canada June 2020: Gathering tools and supplies, and lots of thinking While watching some of the early prep videos for the course I’ve...

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