May 1, 2021. Day One. Getting Started. Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows That about sums it up. I am in my happy place on the water in a boat, whether...
STUDENT BUILDS
Iain’s Solo Canoe Build, Inverness, Scotland
1st July 2021 I have been watching Brian’s YouTube build videos for a while with interest. I was drawn to the mix of traditional frame design with modern materials and techniques, with nice clear info and instructions. I am fairly handy at woodwork and have previously built a “stitch and glue” plywood canoe which I...
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Morris’ F1 and West Greenland Kayaks, Southern California
F1 Kayak, January 2021 Until 2021, most of my kayaks were home-built out of wood with epoxy and fiberglass. Brian Schultz of Cape Falcon Kayak created a detailed instructional video course for building skin-on-frame kayaks. For me, that was the ideal remote class for a pandemic-lockdown lifestyle. I was attracted to building these kayaks because...
Dave’s Tandem 66 Canoe – Belfountain, Ontario, Canada
Last summer my wife saw a need for a canoe. In 2008, I built a SOF Sea Kayak for myself and in 2009 a Stitch & Glue recreational kayak for my wife. The Rec boat is perfect for guests… very stable, easy to paddle… BUT we are now short a boat (or two). After borrowing...
Mariah’s F1
I live in Spring Creek, Nevada, just outside of Elko, which probably doesn’t sound like a real promising place to paddle a kayak. We actually have several decent size reservoirs and a huge marsh, Ruby Marsh, within an hour’s drive of where we live. I’m building the 150 lb. version of the F1, which is...
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Ethan’s F1 build, New Jersey
A COVID project was needed while being stuck at home because of the pandemic. Prior to the Covid, I was fixated on building a boat. I started off by purchasing plans for a plywood sailboat, then I quickly realized that I was way in over my head. I took wood-shop two years ago during my...
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16’4” Yellow Cedar Tandem Tripping Canoe, Vancouver, BC
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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Beardy Richy’s 66 Canoe, Bristol, UK
My aim is to make a single pack canoe 11’ 8” long by 27” wide and 10” deep (3.55m long x 685mm wide and 255mm deep). I always work in metric dimensions but for this project I have used a mix of imperial and metric – mainly building to the imperial measures in the plan...
Grant’s 66 Canoe Nesting Pair
My first ever blog… for canoe’s! Who’s have though. I’ve been stewing over building a floating contraption of some type for some time. I really wanted to do a cedar strip canoe but honestly know basically zero about what I actually want and felt that 200+ hours was a lot of time for doing this....
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Daniels F1, Lysekil, Sweden
Welcome to Lysekil for a moment! I moved over here a couple of years ago and have a coastal landscape to discover. Have a small workshop and can’t stear a real boat…looks like a kayak is a good option😉 Ironicly my house is situated in an forest of oak and I got three trees with...
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