Nearly done.....

It finally managed to get warm here in Illinois so I could get the final 3 coats of varnish to the inside and get the gunwales installed.  Today, I'll head down to the lake and try it out just kneeling in the boat to try to get an idea where (fore and aft) to install the seat.  I suspect I'd be close eyeballing it, but I'd be really unhappy to have to drill more holed than I have to in the gunwales.

Nearly forgot to mention how I decided what to build......

I had a solo canoe years ago from Blackhawk canoe...a Fishhawk.  I loved the canoe and should have never sold it.  It was very narrow and about 12' long.  I knew I wanted a little longer boat this time so found the dimensions from the web, added a couple of feet and about an inch on the width.  I found a guy in the Twin Cities called Eskimo Tom who puts a design into a naval architecture program to do a plate expansion which will loft the form and create the panels.  I asked for a 10 panel boat which is quite a few more than most people do.  I should have done 6 or 8 which would have been much easier and probably nearly as fast.  In a few weeks, I'll find out if I made a good choice!