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The Canoe Shop *Pic*
By:Dan Ruff
Date: 9/20/2001, 8:30 am
In Response To: Re: Speaking of Canoes ??? (Rod)

Yes, the CLC canoes are beautiful. They are made up of multiple panels, so the shapes are very nice. No flat bottomed barges here. A cheaper option than buying the plans or kit is to buy the book:
The Canoe Shop: Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build - by Chris Kulczycki

It's on sale at Amazon for $14. It includes plans for CLC's 3 canoes. I have thumbed through it in a bookstore, and it looks like a really good book. It includes the tables of offsets for the panels, not any full sized plans, but with those offsets, one can cut the panels without much trouble. CLC's "Lapstitch" method will require cutting rabbets on the edges of the plywood panels before they are glued together. A special router bit, or a rabbet plane can be used to do this.

Messages In This Thread

Speaking of Canoes ???
Rehd -- 9/19/2001, 9:19 pm
Re: Speaking of Canoes ??? *Pic*
Ken Sutherland -- 9/22/2001, 4:37 pm
Re: Speaking of Canoes ???
Chris Dore -- 9/20/2001, 1:12 pm
More notes on size...
Jim Eisenmenger -- 9/20/2001, 12:37 pm
Some notes on size
Bryan Sarauer -- 9/20/2001, 11:34 am
Re: Some notes on size
Rehd -- 9/20/2001, 12:01 pm
canoe size and plywood-canoe plans *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/21/2001, 3:10 am
Re: Speaking of Canoes ???
Arlen -- 9/20/2001, 1:26 am
Re: Speaking of Canoes ???
Rod -- 9/19/2001, 10:36 pm
The Canoe Shop *Pic*
Dan Ruff -- 9/20/2001, 8:30 am
MacGregor *Pic*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/20/2001, 9:14 am
Re: Speaking of Canoes ???
Walter -- 9/19/2001, 9:58 pm