Hi Guys,
I asked this on another board a few months back - if you could get plans to build a strip canoe from among the very many different boats out there (you know, all those nice models for which plans are not available), which boat would be your first choice?
Moonman.
If you could get plans for any canoe model...
This one. The L'Hirondelle. It is in the Canadian Canoe Museum. It is a decked sailing canoe, 15'1" long, 34" wide, built sometime around 1890 by the Ontario Canoe Company in Peterborough. It is built of red cedar in the cedar-rib style, vertically stripped with walnut decking, chrome-plated brass hardware and a Radix folding fan centerboard that is worked by a lever. The canoe combines the traditional shape of the Canadian open canoe with the decking that is usually associated with American sailing canoes.
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