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Building the Six Hour Canoe
For my first project i am going to build the 'six hour canoe' from the book.
Anyone have any experience or know of related websites? Thanks! |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
Keep in mind that 6 hours may be 6 hours of "touch time". The waiting
for glue to dry may not be included. Or at least that's what I heard from someone who built one before. Let us know how it turns out Matt JEM Watercraft www.jem.e-boat.net notta chance wrote: For my first project i am going to build the 'six hour canoe' from the book. Anyone have any experience or know of related websites? Thanks! |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
Matt Langenfeld ) writes:
Keep in mind that 6 hours may be 6 hours of "touch time". The waiting for glue to dry may not be included. Or at least that's what I heard from someone who built one before. a few weeks ago I put a project plan for a small plywood boat on my website that shows the waiting time. look under "Boats" then "Boatbuilding" on my website. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
"notta chance" wrote in message ...
For my first project i am going to build the 'six hour canoe' from the book. Anyone have any experience or know of related websites? Thanks! If you can build it in less than 6 days, post a message explaining how :-) Jacques http://bateau.com |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
"notta chance" wrote in message ...
For my first project i am going to build the 'six hour canoe' from the book. Anyone have any experience or know of related websites? Thanks! Funny that your handle is "not a chance" as it is what I would say if you ask if you can build it in 6 hours! First time builder... Call it the 16 hour canoe or maybe 26 if you work at a slower pace But so what, you will end up with a little boat and a bad addiction. Yes, you will build more boats, just the way it is. Let us know how you do, good luck on your build, Scotty |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
If you can build it in less than 6 days, post a message explaining how :-)
Exactly. It's easy to build but it probably took me six weeks between waiting for epoxy to cure and all of life's distractions...something about my boatshop being a "garage" or something... |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
the 6 hr canoe can be built in 6 hrs. a lot of people did it at the annual
Mystic Seaport Museum festival or someplace and it was written up in Wooden Boat. I don't know if they counted waiting for the glue to dry but the inexperienced families who built them launched them the same day. maybe 2-3 people can build a 6 hr canoe in 6 hrs. I don't know if there were any solo builders. Some were father-and-son teams. How much can a 10 year old add to productivity? "No, Dad, it goes on the other way around"? and Harold Payson and a helper built a 16 ft Windsprint hull in one afternoon. he says so right in "New(?) Instant Boats". I'm sure the Weldwood glue wasn't dry but the ring nails were holding it together anyway. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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Building the Six Hour Canoe
SIx-hour canoe was my first project,more like 6 weekends, spent lotsa timein
the moaning chair pierre "William R. Watt" wrote in message ... the 6 hr canoe can be built in 6 hrs. a lot of people did it at the annual Mystic Seaport Museum festival or someplace and it was written up in Wooden Boat. I don't know if they counted waiting for the glue to dry but the inexperienced families who built them launched them the same day. maybe 2-3 people can build a 6 hr canoe in 6 hrs. I don't know if there were any solo builders. Some were father-and-son teams. How much can a 10 year old add to productivity? "No, Dad, it goes on the other way around"? and Harold Payson and a helper built a 16 ft Windsprint hull in one afternoon. he says so right in "New(?) Instant Boats". I'm sure the Weldwood glue wasn't dry but the ring nails were holding it together anyway. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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Was Building the Six Hour Canoe
Flew's Theory My theory is that any job on my boat takes minimum 4 times as long as it would if not for being on a boat. And this is for well organised, planned in advance jobs. And that's not counting the time to travel to and from the boat. From a base of 100% to do it in my garage:- a) add 100 % because of the tools. 50% in carting all the tools you think you will need, 50% in working without the ones you didn't bring but really should have. b) add 100% because of working on a boat. Could be space, could be the boat won't stay still, could be weather c) add 100% for distractions. Other boats, boat owners, just nice sitting in the sun, That gets us to 400%. For a job not properly thought out, planned, and researched, just double it. My other theory is that when you need to change the lamp at the top of the mast, you might as well start by removing the prop. It can't possible be required, but no job on a boat is as simple as it looks, and will inevitably involve or disclose unrelated problems. If you start by removing the prop, the rest of the lamp change job will be simple by comparison. Then all you have to do is put the prop back. ( and I have no idea how I would remove the prop without slipping the boat, probably start by changing the masthead lamp .... ) My son wants to know if you take 6 hours to build the 6 hour canoe, how long will it take to sink? David "Old Nick" wrote in message ... On 3 Mar 2004 08:35:49 -0800, (Backyard Renegade) vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: I actually abhor the idea of going into _any_ boatbuilding project with the idea of doing it as fast as possible. "notta chance" wrote in message ... For my first project i am going to build the 'six hour canoe' from the book. Anyone have any experience or know of related websites? Thanks! Funny that your handle is "not a chance" as it is what I would say if you ask if you can build it in 6 hours! First time builder... Call it the 16 hour canoe or maybe 26 if you work at a slower pace But so what, you will end up with a little boat and a bad addiction. Yes, you will build more boats, just the way it is. Let us know how you do, good luck on your build, Scotty ************************************************** ** sorry .........no I'm not! remove ns from my header address to reply via email Spike....Spike? Hello? |
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