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wederom bedankt voor de animo :)

Boat Projects - DK Touring Canoe Plans

We chose this project because it looks more like a real boat (comparing with simple bottom + 1 side section ones).

First of all, we did everything "wrong" - we shortened the length to abt 4.7 m, to simplify - 1 joint instead of 2, and as I have a GRP canoe 4.6 m as well, I thought this would be long enough for 3 people (the lake is also small). Secondly we used polyester glue instead of epoxy - as 3 times cheaper and epoxy is only available on order by us. Fiberglass tape is also not available, so we used cloth instead and cut 10 cm bands of it, used some overlap...

In order to shorten the boat we just shortened the distance between marking lines on plywood, it also took a little improvising to smoothen the lines.

As the angles of sections changed and were misplaced, we first made temporary "permanent" supports for lower section, just measuring angles and cutting it out from crap. 

During assembly with cable clips we used wooden blocks to keep bottom ends up and some improvised weight to keep bottom center down.

Will continue...


Thanks to Submariner :)