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To: Grainne who wrote (103174)	5/4/2005 8:25:07 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) of 108807

A person with moderate woodworking skills can probably build a cedar strip canoe. You can get plans for them. The plans consist of diagrams that are like the cross section of a canoe if you sliced it from side to side at several points from stem to stern. You make plywood templates in the shape of the cross sections, and mount them securely upside down at an interval that will give you the length you want. Then you tack cedar strips that are about 1/8 inch thick and maybe a half inch wide to the templates. The idea is to get them pretty tightly fit. When you have all the strips attached to the templates, you sand the outside of the hull down to a smooth finish, then lay on fiberglass and gel on the outside. When that has cured, you remove the templates and apply fiberglass and gel to the inside. Then you afix the gunwales and the keel strip, attach the seats and the thwarts and finish them. I've never done this, and I may have the sequence off a bit. The result is a very beautiful and functional canoe. Don't hold me to the details.

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