Jim Dodd

After some chores I spent some more time in the shop. I mounted the stern carry handle, placement was dictated by the width of the...

I've never had a problem sanding or glassing it when everything is upside down. The knuckle area is flat so that makes it pretty easy to...

Part 2 -Seat construction and Install The notch cleaned up and the bottom "extra" material marked for removal. This material doesn't...

The glass should stick to the hull. Glass it all at the same time. Trim your cloth, to about 2" of the hull. Should have no trouble...

I found the Hogging effect, when I pressure fit the strip joints in the football. I actually had to glue a block to the inside of one...

All forms completed. starting to assume a sort of 'canoe' shape. Working under the careful eye of the design team.

Despite my efforts to keep my center line centered, there were a couple of places where it was slightly off (although not nearly as far...

Perfect. Thank you for getting out the tape measure.

All of my solo canoes are symmetrical and all have seats with the front edge, approximately 5" behind C/L. I find that any "fine tuning"...

If the seat in my Yellowstone was placed incorrectly at the factory, I have been paddling it in ignorant bliss for 20-years. I had it...

@Gamma1214, in his Bloodvein II build thread, recently sawed off a protuberant strip along the edge or corner where the top of the hull...

My canoe shop. Before the Nokomis Wood Shop. I've been tilting for about 15 years. Tilting will make sanding that Shouldered...

I tilt my strongback, to make it easier to cut the center line, and then fit the strips. Helps in the sanding process too. Jim

As planned, I looked closely at my Sassafras strips and decided that I had enough to close the football. I switched to Sassafras and...

Well she floats! There is a lake a couple hundred miles south of me that stays ice free year round, as the lake water cools a power...