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Troubles from China
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What type of canoe do you have now and what types of water do you like to paddle on? What type of construction method are you planning to use?
There are a lot of websites that offer canoe plans such as bear mountain, northwest canoe, chesapeake light craft, ashes still water boats, and more. I would suggest starting off looking at some of those websites.
I don't think you'll find any members here willing to swap e-mail addresses with China until they get to know the person a little better but we would be happy to help out any other way we can.
Alan
Thank you very much, Allen. Although I have an adventurous heart, I don't have much time or place to go for drifting or rapids. I just need to build a canoe and find a calm surface to play on. I may have overlooked the possibility of members not willing to exchange addresses, but I am still very grateful to you, Allen. I will refer to more types of canoes
What kind of workshop do you have to build the canoe? How much space and what kinds of tools? How much time and money do you want to spend building the canoe? Where will you store the canoe when not in use? How will you transport it to the water? Answers to those questions would help determine whether it would be best to build a strip canoe, skin on frame, or stitch and glue (plywood)) canoe.
Alan
I have a storage room with a length of about 4.5 meters and a height of 6 meters. I plan to hang the canoe with a rope and store it at a high place on the roof. The only tools available are basic saws, nail guns, etc. However, you know that online shopping for tools in China is convenient and fast. I don't worry about owning any tools. I have my own car for transportation, and buying cedar wood strips in China may be more expensive than using ordinary pine wood strips. I plan to use ordinary pine wood strips
Nothing wrong with using pine for strips. Plenty of people have done that. It will just add a little weight and make sanding a little more difficult.
If you search the canoe building forum on this site you'll find a lot of in-depth threads that show the strip building process step by step.
Northwest canoe has some nice designs that are only $5 and available for download after purchase.
northwestcanoe.com
Alan
If you search the canoe building forum on this site you'll find a lot of in-depth threads that show the strip building process step by step.
Northwest canoe has some nice designs that are only $5 and available for download after purchase.
Northwest Canoe Company, Inc.
Whether you like to Do It Yourself or prefer professionals do the work, WE ARE HERE TO HELP?
northwestcanoe.com
Alan
Other options for alternate building methods you might not have thought of would be stitch and glue or skin on frame. They take less time to build and require less tools and time than a strip canoe.
gaboats.com
Alan
GABoats
gaboats.com
Alan
Thank you very much. I have looked at the theme you provided, and I will refer to it and start building it next. Personally, I still prefer the design of the Northwest canoe, but GA looks good tooNothing wrong with using pine for strips. Plenty of people have done that. It will just add a little weight and make sanding a little more difficult.
If you search the canoe building forum on this site you'll find a lot of in-depth threads that show the strip building process step by step.
Northwest canoe has some nice designs that are only $5 and available for download after purchase.
Northwest Canoe Company, Inc.
Whether you like to Do It Yourself or prefer professionals do the work, WE ARE HERE TO HELP?
Alan
After 3 months of construction, I finally succeeded and successfully conducted a trial voyage
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Nice looking boat. Can you tell us what plans you used, what wood species and what you'd do differently if you had to do it again?
More pictures are also, always, appreciated.
More pictures are also, always, appreciated.
That looks great! Are you happy with how it performed? What does the writing on the bow say?
Thanks for the update.
Alan
上面提到的常饮精酿啤酒，因为我平时做一些啤酒是为了自印，单个的木条太单调了，所以设计了几张图纸
The Changyin craft beer mentioned above, because I usually make some beer for self printing, the single wooden strip is too monotonous, so I designed a few drawings
I used pine strips because walnut wood is restricted from import and I couldn't buy walnut wood of the appropriate length, so I replaced it with a paintbrush
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It looks like you had a nice area to work in. Lots of room.
Building without staples is pretty ambitious for a first time build but it looks like you did good work.
The bottom looks very round. How did the stability feel?
Alan
Building without staples is pretty ambitious for a first time build but it looks like you did good work.
The bottom looks very round. How did the stability feel?
Alan
I converted the dimensions based on the drawings I found myself, and then built them in my warehouse. For the first time, I only remembered that as long as they were tightly combined, I didn't think about using a stapler. This was the first time in my life that I processed and created wooden products, so there were many details that I didn't pay attention to. However, I think I will pay attention to these details in my future construction. The stability is very good. My friend, my daughter, and three others weigh about 200kg, which I think is still acceptable. We don't dare to conduct tipping tests in winter now. I think I will experiment in summer
Douban, congratulations on your first canoe build and welcome to site membership!
Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details page in your profile, which will cause it to show under your avatar as a clickable map link. Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running Thread. We look forward to your participation in our canoe community.
We have never had a member from China before. Just curious, why did you choose to build an open canoe rather than a kayak? Are any open canoe brands sold commercially in China?
Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, because canoeing is a geographic sport, please add your location to the Account Details page in your profile, which will cause it to show under your avatar as a clickable map link. Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running Thread. We look forward to your participation in our canoe community.
We have never had a member from China before. Just curious, why did you choose to build an open canoe rather than a kayak? Are any open canoe brands sold commercially in China?
There are currently no formal open commercial canoes in China. Most of them are what we call crab boats. However, some handicraft enthusiasts will build open canoes and kayaks themselves. But China's manufacturing industry is very developed, and there are very few wooden ones. Most of them are inflatable and plastic, accounting for about 99.9%. Why do I build open canoes? Because in my impression, canoes are like this
