RickR

Getting close now. 4 coats of primer and one coat of color are on the hull. The outwales are fully shaped, sanded, and first coated...

Building canoes in the summer is hard. There are too many other things to do. Made a little more progress over the weekend. I always...

The poling clinic was my first experience with wood canvas canoes. I really enjoyed it. I like how they can be maintained and repaired...

I agree, I met them at the Paddlers-Snow Walkers gathering in Vermont last fall, it was great talking wood canvas canoes with others who...

I attended a 2 day poling clinic last August with Ray and Pat. Ray let me camp on his lawn. It was delightful and I made a lot of...

A nice article about poling a canoe here in Maine. I have met the guides, one of the few outfits that use wood canvas canoe with...

Over the last 10 years or so, I've bought or made quite a few "game changers", all in the interest of lighter and/or more comfortable...

I woke up this morning and realized it was time to build another canoe. It's probably been 6 years since my last one. At the time I was...

I don’t know if this post should go in the Poling section, the Solo section, or the Tandem section, so I’ll put it here. We had nine...

I would recommend Gil Gilpatricks Wabanaki design. It's an excellent poling canoe, good on flat water, and gets the job done in...

I can confirm from recent experience that Delftship free edition is still alive and well. For those that don't run windows, it behaves...

Sounds like a fine project. I would also add that polers tend to like a flatter bottom as well. Bob

This sounds like an excellent application for designing your own hull. Do you have any experience with 3D modeling software? If so that...

I never considered this, but it's intriguing. I have no experience with 3-D modeling software so it may be a heavy lift. I'll think on...

I'm contemplating building my second stripper with the goal of section paddling/poling the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. The accomplished...