Life gets busy. Packboat is finished and has been out a bunch. Colour change coming after the paddling season is done, and a lot of activity to catch up on.
Test float, with a rare Nashwaak paddles double blade cherry 9' paddle
Thanksgiving weekend paddle
Far too little paddling this year!
Comfortable Swift canoes seat.
Work on the Moonlight carried on, ready for canvas. Hardwood golf tees glued into old gunwale holes make solid plugs for new holes and screws
One wide piece of African mahogany
Really kool new project, a fiberglass replica of a Chestnut 11' featherweight found on Kijiji, advertised as a 7 foot canoe. A phone call and some more pictures later, we took a look and found this.
Cant make out who the builder was in Orillia, but with the single seat, and single thwart its set up just like the Chestnut. After what must have been many years outside, the wood was largely gone but the fiberglass hull was solid, and a nice layup with reinforcing where it is needed
Needing to be stripped, this was tasked out to the apprentice.
Bare hull
Flotation and a different end treatment.
Small keel, and a rigid bottom
Ready to be fitted out
12' of ash for rails
to be continued..
