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25.5 foot Logging freighter canoe/boat thing

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Going through some more old documents, found this boat build plan for a boat they apparently used on Long Lake for the log drives. The dimensions are very similar to traditional freighter canoes, just flattened out for building with modern lumber. I've got some contacts I'm going to ask questions to......be a pretty cool boat to build in strip style, a party barge for sure. Wouldn't draw much water either.
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Only 676 pounds. With judicious wood choice, a zillion-time retired teacher should be able to shave that to 675 pounds and stay out all summer on such an ark.
 
Only 676 pounds. With judicious wood choice, a zillion-time retired teacher should be able to shave that to 675 pounds and stay out all summer on such an ark.
Man, these eastern paddlers will do and put up with anything to stick with their wooden boats! My go-to canoe is only 18-1/2 feet long, but that 42 pounds is what kept me sticking with her. (This response is meant as a joke!)
 
Gee, Mem

You'll likely have to put a second portage yoke in that.....

Lance

You do portages Albert Faille style, you bring extra lumber which you carry over the portage and build a new boat at the end of the portage.


I forgot to mention, Faille was over 80 years old when the film was made!
 
You do portages Albert Faille style, you bring extra lumber which you carry over the portage and build a new boat at the end of the portage.

Yikes, I thought you were joking but then watched film. What an indomitable character. He portages 55 gallon gasoline drums, his outboard motor, all his supplies, plus lumber to build a new boat . . . over Virginia Falls on the Nahanni River, which is twice as high as Niagara!

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That gigantic monolith splitting the current is named Mason's Rock, after Bill.
 
The only things I have in common with Albert Faillie is age, I also have a bunch of those cute15- 20 gallon barrels, mine are empty, even empty they wouldn’t be much fun to portage. If they were 55 gallon barrels he wouldn’t have been able to sit down on them so easily, he would’ve had to jump up to sit on them.
I liked his sleeping arrangements too!
One tough old man, if he could do that kind of trip the rest of us should be able to cobble up enough, “Git up and go” to do one of our, “walk in the Park” kind of trips, Eh.
 
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