17' 9" Freedom
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17' 9" Freedom
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archive: Freedom 18'4
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Posted by: patrickdoty
Posted on: Thu May 20, 2004 4:12 pm
I finished my Freedom 17'9 finnally!!!! It was a labor of love let me tell you....but now that i am going to be guiding canoe trips for ymca camp menogyn, I thought i should finish her up. Check out my website and also the camps website....they actually build some of thier own strippers now to use on trips.
http://www.campicaghowan.org/menogyn.asp
http://studentweb.uwstout.edu/dotyp/scootywhoopin.htm
Posted by: patrickdoty
Posted on: Thu May 20, 2004 4:12 pm
I finished my Freedom 17'9 finnally!!!! It was a labor of love let me tell you....but now that i am going to be guiding canoe trips for ymca camp menogyn, I thought i should finish her up. Check out my website and also the camps website....they actually build some of thier own strippers now to use on trips.
http://www.campicaghowan.org/menogyn.asp
http://studentweb.uwstout.edu/dotyp/scootywhoopin.htm
nearing the end
I glass this weekend finally (after almost a year of my canoe sitting idle). Although I've heard of people building canoes out of butternut I haven't seen a photo of one yet. Just for sanity sake I laminated a test piece last night and it seemed to go ok. I'll post pics when it gets finished (hopefully sometime in July). Anyway, I'll be praying to the canoe gods that everything goes ok with glassing...more later!
Ruso
Ruso
Update
Put a pre-coat on Saturday. Had a friend come over Sunday (he built the Indienne) so it was nice to have someone with experience helping with the glassing. I ended up having quite a few pinhole bubbles which I lightly sanded out. I added another football layer because I went with light glass on Larry's (from Raka) recommendation. I'll do a fill coat tonight and hopefully then it's onto the inside. BTW, the butternut turned out to be pretty dark after the epoxy and I'm liking the look of it.
Ruso
Ruso
check out the blog
Big Woody...per your request I have created a blog. I'll eventually get most of the 100 photos I've taken to document the process posted and I'll keep documenting as I go along.
http://butternutcanoe.blogspot.com/
http://butternutcanoe.blogspot.com/
I just happened to come by the butternut ($2/BF) from a company that trying to dump it and I was using it for other woodworking projects when it occured to me that it's an viable alternative to cedar. It's a dying species because of a disease or worms (can't remember) so I can't really attest to it's availability in mass, but I know places like woodcraft sell it for a reasonable price. It's awesome to work with it has a really warm look to it, but all the pieces are 10' or less so keep that in mind. Also because of the worms it had a lot of holes in it so if you're looking for a canoe with character you might consider it.
Ruso
Ruso
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I put the first two coats of epoxy on last night and this morning. I have never read how long it takes to actually APPLY the first coat, either on this forum or in any of my books. I probably shouldn't have started at 9:30 last night. :shocked I figured it would take me about 2 hours, but it was more like 4. Here it is with the first 2 coats on, and 3 layers of glass on the bow and stern.