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Offline Outbackbob48

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Strip Canoe
« on: April 01, 2016, 02:29:13 pm »
I needed another project besides knapping,  hide tannin, and messing with primitive fire, Here's a couple pics of my cedar strip canoe with here final coat of fiberglass on the outside. Need to glass the inside and install trim and seats and she should be ready for her maiden voyage. I live close to French creek which dumps into the Alleghany then the Ohio and the Mississippi, wonder how long it would take me get from just  south of Lake Erie to New Orleans, people way before me were headed there. Maybe I'll try it soon as I reach my 2nd childhood, ahhh hell I'm already livin my 2nd childhood.  :o :o ;D  Bob

Offline bubby

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2016, 02:32:23 pm »
Sweet Bob, just need a pic of you drawing a bead on a carp with your bow😃
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Offline Lumberman

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2016, 02:53:32 pm »
Wow that's a good use of that extra time! Do ya name your water crafts? She's a beauty

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2016, 03:01:44 pm »
Very nice. That's something on my to-do list.

Offline Knoll

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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2016, 03:02:42 pm »
Beautiful craft. Congrats!
... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857

Offline Ed Brooks

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2016, 03:33:20 pm »
WOW! That looks awesome.  Ed
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Offline DC

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2016, 03:33:32 pm »
I don't think there is anything prettier than cedar strip boats :D :D

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2016, 04:04:00 pm »
Aw dang!  I have dreamt of doing one of these beauties for close on 20 years!  She's beautiful!

Can't wait to see the "full draw" photo of her on the water!

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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2016, 04:11:13 pm »
Very cool project Bob.  Give me a call when you hit the Markland lock and dam on the Ohio and I'll bring you some supplies.
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2016, 04:13:28 pm »
Too cool

Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2016, 04:38:14 pm »
OO, if I make it that far I will need you to scratch my ears, arms will be to muscled to scratch my own ears. Bubby, darn thing is almost to pretty for stinkin carp to ride in :o :o ;D

Offline Swampman

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2016, 05:02:01 pm »
Wow, that is beautiful.  Been on my to do list for a long time.  Looks like you get to check it off.  You definitely should post a picture of it on the water.  I would love to see it.

Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2016, 06:32:56 pm »
Wow! Beautiful work

Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2016, 06:48:13 pm »
Now thats hitting the water in high style, nothing like the natural beauty of wood.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Strip Canoe
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2016, 07:26:49 pm »
Very nice canoe Bob.
 Some kids from Brevard College here set out on the French Broad River here a few years ago, headed north to the Tennessee then to the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans. Took them 3 months. Bon voyage!  ;D
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