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Glad you made the Uniwhale work ! My fear of the Uniwhale, would be it splitting ,at the 1/4" thick area, between the inwhale and out...

I Stand Corrected ! Your plan overlay is enlightening ! I should have done that ! If you take out the Rocker from the NWC Merlin ? You...

Gamma, one other tip on using these plans. You'll notice that the keel line on the stem forms does not meet up with the keel line on...

Accuracy is in the eye of the builder. Some are happy if their forms are a1/4" off. That's just not me. How will a hull preform, if the...

Thanks guys, I'll certainly pay extra attention to those 2 stations. I looked into buying the 38 special plans a few years ago when...

Northwest Canoe, modified the Original Bruce Kunz Merlin. A good move, beings you have the PDF file, see if you can enlarge by .38% You...

Good choice. I built a slightly shortened version of that Merlin. It is a fast boat and tracks really well. Watch out when crossing eddy...

On the weight issue, I've seen a few race hulls, that had no gunnels at all, just a thick shearline strip. The seats were the pedestal...

Jim, this looks more like a shopping list of why you think stemless is better than stemmed, as I stated before, I think each has a place...

I'll grant you, that there is not much weight reduction going to a stemless build. The time it takes to shape a stemless form, should...

Raven has been moved to the back burner (well, actually the off-loading table of the shaper) and I finished putting the coves on the...

Strip Prep - taking place late fall 2023 Sorted through all of my left over strips and strip lumber, figure I have enough on hand for...

I only had blow outs on a few of the strips, and it didn't seem to help by changing the feed rate. And all the router bits are new, so i...

Yes ! It's This time of year, when we start dreaming up a new build ! Two things, in the weigh savings. A Kevlar copy , with Aluminum...

Solo on the Light Side Over the past couple of months, I noticed something about the canoe lookingfor/purchase/release threads that I...