4/15/19 So I am entered in the California River Quest and the Texas Water Safari this year and have decided that the LPB will be the perfect mix of speed and stability for those races. I’ve never paddled one – but I’ve decided ayway. I started off making a couple of paddles first. I...
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Des Moines IA F1 build
So I did all that work sharpening my antique miter saw only to realize that the jig I had made for the miter saw would not fit it. So I borrowed a power miter saw from my friend. I built the above jig so i could accurately cut diagonal cuts into my long stringers...
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Hello Everyone, I have been in the planning process for building an F1 for about 8 months now. I have limited financial resources at the time, and I do not have a woodworking shop, or a wealth of nice tools. I have been slowly collecting chisels, rasps, drills, bits, hand jig saws, clamps, planers,...
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Steve’s Nesting Pack Canoes, Middlebury, Vermont
Hi all – I am an amateur boat builder, with a dozen or so kayaks and canoes built over the years, mostly for friends and family. I started with a couple of stitch-and-glue kayaks based on Chesapeake Lightcraft designs. Those were fun boats, but I never was crazy about stitch-and-glue. So I moved on...
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Franz building a F1 in southeastern Bavaria
Hi, I’m a half century old software developer (actually a physicist) and got the kayak bug a year ago. I live in the very southeast of Bavaria/Germany close to Rosenheim. Now I’m embarking on building a F1. 16th March 2019 I’m currently still preparing things. This is already getting a bit lengthy, since...
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Well I have been butting this of for awhile, not the blogging but the building of a double kayak. My wife finally won out. So here I am building my 5th skin on frame Kayak. and I must say it fills my shed, barely enough room to get around either end. It...
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Adam’s F1 Build in Norcross, Georgia – USA
For me, the building process began over a year ago when I found Brian’s site over Christmas vacation 2017. I immersed myself in the free course material and as soon as that ran out, I bought the F1 build course and plans. My plan is document the build over the next days/weeks through words...
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Richard’s – 66 Tandem Canoe – 16 ft. – Wisconsin
Richard (of Valtris Woodworking) decides on, builds, and completes a Cape Falcon, 66 canoe. It is fair to say, that the reason I chose to build a Cape Falcon was Brian’s use of real woodworking. Things like mortise and tenon gunwale design, etc. I have looked at several skin-on-frame companies and this looks really...
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Peter’s – 66 Canoe – Exeter, England
My aim is to build a canoe for camping trips. I’m a novice kayaker, 6’ 2” and 75kg. My experience of canoes is limited to very stable craft in excess of 32″beam. I decided on a Double-Paddle Canoe with a theoretical capacity of 90-110kg. Length about 13′ 6″. Beam 28″. Depth 10.5″. Started by...
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Nicks F1, Emsworth, UK.
Green oak and Cedar! Last year I built three SOF kayaks, all fuselage frame construction. Two Gentry KidYaks, and a 1931 Disko Bay, for which I took the museum lines plan and lofted it full size. The kayaks have all worked well, but I want to build a proper steam bent framed one!...
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