Change of plans!
After evaluating the Stripper plans and the attention span of my 7 year old grandson, I have decided to put off the stripper and build a simpler, quicker, plywood canoe with him before taking on the stripper canoe.
The plywood canoe is the lapped s&g "Sassafrass 16" (not a Glen_L design
). Last week we bought the 1/4" marine plywood and a sheet of 1/2" mdf for patterns. We drew out the strakes on the mdf and cut them out. (Dallas rough cut them with a jig saw and I finished them with the band saw.)
He'll be here through Monday, and I hope to have all the strakes cut and maybe even scarfed before he goes home to Atlanta. On his next visit we'll stitch the hull together and glue up the seams. That part should go reasonably fast and keep his attention (I hope). It will actually look like a boat at that point.
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Tom
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Knot-So-Fast (A stretched Bo-Jest design)
Travel Log at
www.tomstug.blogspot.com"It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do." - Garfield
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