I started this project a couple of years ago and have since went back to college so it has been slow going but I am finally taking a summer off so I got it finished up just in time to launch on father's day. Hull is Douglas Fir with African mah...

End view of a Willits. Part of a day of antique canoe restoration and clay pigeon shooting in Elburn, IL.

Building a cedar-strip Freedom 17 canoe

12' Chestnut Trapper

Pictorial Build-Along Tutorial- My third Canadian style canoe - skin on frame construction (SOF)

-Gunwale Details- | Building a Goat Island Skiff in Santa Cruz La Laguna, Guatemala

#makeaboat

Last year, after rowing my 8' Gardner nesting pram (see it here: http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86267&highlight=gardner+pram ) as much as 3 miles at a time, I realized that I really liked rowing and that I wanted a serious rowboat. I really like the looks of the CLC Annapolis Wherry, as well as both the Liz and Firefly wherry designs - but I wanted one in SOF, for the obvious advantages (obvious to me, that is: Easily cartoppable, very inexpensive to build, very, very…

Pictorial Build-Along Tutorial- My third Canadian style canoe - skin on frame construction (SOF)

This first update of the building of a Strip Canoe is about constructing the strongback. This is the form that the strip canoe will be built around.

Pictorial Build-Along Tutorial- My third Canadian style canoe - skin on frame construction (SOF)

The art of building a cedar and canvas canoe with a master builder.

My New Pal Having enjoyed reading so many interesting stories of other peoples builds, I feel duty-bound to write my own! So, here is the first instalmentof my latest project. I’m hoping the pleasure of the build will last a few months, so it will be a drip-feed report. Looking for new opportunities for canoeing fun, probably associated with a fair dose of swimming, I decided to build a boat that would be rigged for sailing. My current solo canoe is a Stewart River ‘Unity’ design and is a