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Category: Boatbuilding

  • The Sailing Canoe update: Sail plans developing, planking done, fibreglassing done

               

  • Cedar skin completed on the sailing canoe-yawl

        Well, if you’re feeling depressed about the America’s cup,just rejoice in the fact that I’ve reached a milestone in my project 🙂 ! Next term at the NZTBS  I’ll be fibreglassing the outside and making the centreboard and case, plus flippng over the hull. I was almost gonna keep planking and make the…

  • Skin Growth.. more canoe updates

    Over the past 2 sets of Monday/ Tuesday night classes, me and my volunteers have got lots done. Averaging around about 14 strips cut and tacked down on my official Monday night classes. I have been unofficially attending the Tuesday class as well to get the strips glued. This helps to keep up the pace…

  • Planking onwards!

      More voluntary help this week – I need to push forward as quickly as possible with only 1 1/2 terms left to finish 3 layers of planking and a centrecase to build before the school closes/moves to a new site.  Thanks Grant for the help!

  • canoe planking progress from before the holidays/ some doodling

    Not much has happened, as it’s been between terms at the NZ Trad Boatbuilding School. So no night class/ no access to the workshop.   Here are some photos from 2 weeks ago of the second layer of planking getting glued on, and a few digital (!) sketches of potential sail plans. These are purely…

  • Pakeha sailing canoes in NZ

    Pakeha sailing canoes in NZ The USA/UK fad of single- hulled (‘Rob Roy’) sailing canoes was even popular in NZ! Check out this mini-regatta of good looking canoes near Picton in 1887. Shame I built mine 120 years too late to join them.. Thanks National Library! 

  • Update on the Sailing Canoe.. the start of the second skin of cedar

    I seem to have reached a milestone here, the shell of the boat is now enclosed and the process of bonding on the second skin has been a learning curve. it locks everything together and gives it strength. Here is some pictures from the past 2 weeks–They are kind of out of sequence cos I’m…

  • Progress report on the canoe-yawl

    This Monday I got more mates showing up to help than I had Bargained for. Which is a good thing, as I have to train them up to help me get this thing as good as finished by November! Alas, the New Zealand Traditional Boatbuilding School has to finally move, because the Hobsonville Point Land…

  • victorian era sailing canoe

    This is the Monday-night project I’ve been working on for a year, starting with a pencil and paper and inspiration from the adventurous English and American gentlemen’s sailing canoes of the of the late 1800s. It’s built using cold-moulded cedar/epoxy resin, and is to my own design.