Wednesday, April 10, 2013

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!

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