Introduction To begin, the Cape Falcon skin-on-frame boat building system is comprehensive and easy to understand. Even inexperienced woodworkers should be confident in their ability to build a Cape Falcon skin-on-frame canoe. The nature of the system allows for a great deal of flexibility in the type of canoe you build. You decide the characteristics you...
"The Milburn’s Quad Nesting Canoes"Continue reading
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...
"Rory’s F1 Build with Yellow Cedar Ribs, Vancouver, BC"Continue reading
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...
"Iain’s Solo Canoe Build, Inverness, Scotland"Continue reading
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...
"16’4” Yellow Cedar Tandem Tripping Canoe, Vancouver, BC"Continue reading
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....
"Grant’s 66 Canoe Nesting Pair"Continue reading
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...
"Daniels F1, Lysekil, Sweden"Continue reading
Late Summer and Fall of 2021: Sails! Note on BLOG organization. I’m going to start putting recent updates here at the top, and if you’re interested in the build process, continue reading further down below. It’s just getting a bit long. So, I sewed the first sail for the smallest of three canoes in mid-Sep....
"Adam’s triple 66 Canoe build, Flat Rock, MI"Continue reading
Ok, this seems to be a lot longer post and process than I thought and it’s good not to be in a hurry. I think I spent more time on researching and sourcing wood and tools than I will ever be building the kayak. How about that? Sound like a control freak to you? Well,...
"Tibor’s W. Greenland kayak, Sweden"Continue reading
This is the result, below the story of how this was made. Start of the build I started building the LPB in December 2019. Fortunately I made a greenland paddle during the summer, so I knew where to buy good wood. Due to the limited availability of time the progress of building is less...
"Berend’s LPB build, Leiden (The Netherlands)"Continue reading
Update November 2020: Further paddling impressions – performance in rougher waters, rolling and rescues, an expedition. (below). (List of materials suppliers is at the end of the blog, below.) Preparations: Oct/Nov 2019 After nearly three months of researching local sources of supply, negotiating access to large enough workshop space (not enough room at home, or I’d...
"Chris’ F1 kayak build, Stirling, Scotland"Continue reading
