1. Creating the mold: Before you build the canoe, you need a form to bend the ribs around and shape the hull. The Keewaydin crew made its own metal-clad wooden armature, or mold. Then, the start ...

It has to float, obviously, and that rule remains even if the canoe breaks ... Sight down the hull form to locate any low areas in the foam or plywood. If you find any, build them out with drywall ...

Vulcan helped the team build their own forms to shape the elegant canoe that requires a long series of steps to construct. The flat-bottom, no-keel tandem boat is made of Western red cedar strips ...

Canoe building always has been a full-time living ... but Boessel still uses many of the same forms and tools Hafeman used in the same building. CollectingWhile he's perfected some steps, Boessel ...

but he proved "somebody with a little crafting experience" could build a canoe "It is the form. It doesn't take an expert craftsman, but that would probably help." Few special tools are needed.

Today, he's the last person building wooden canoes in this corner of Canada. "The one thing you need to remember — not just [about] building canoes, but working with wood — the wood is going ...

In many cases, engineering — in all forms — is regarded ... “We go through the design build, paddling and an oral presentation as well as reports during the actual competition.” During the 2015 ...

how they change in the drying process and how to treat cracks that form while building. He got his own 64-foot-long canoe log in 2020, and it was delivered to his front yard — unplanned — on ...

He and his wife, Dawn, were recently featured on the Discovery Science Channel's "How It's Made" where they showcased their expertise in canoe-building and harvesting wild rice. For Simula ...

LEAHY AND HIS VOLUNTEER CREW REPAIR AND RESTORE OLD CANOES AND BUILD NEW ONES IN HIS SMALL GROVELAND WORK SHED. JESS CARNES GREW UP ACROSS THE STREET AND ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT ALL THE FUSS WAS ...

Seventh and eighth-graders spent a week building the canoe, thanks to a new boat-building program was by the Urban Wilderness Program. "Definitely hands-on, very experiential learning," program ...