Building a cedar strip canoe - Episode 14, Gunwales

[@owencasey11111]

Hi Andrew. Congratulations on building a beautiful canoe and cheers for the videos. They’re really on the money. Thanks for sharing the pearls of wisdom you’ve learned along the way. I’m building a Champlain 16 and I’m at the gunwales stage and I found your video very helpful.

[@TTM-GEB]

I built a similar boat and used Titebond III for all glued wood joints... Worked well 😊

[@faceforfpv84]

Superb as always

[@adriancsimpson]

It's looking very smart.

[@AlsCanoeKalamazoo]

Andy, love these videos. I keep coming back. I see a spacer beam through the middle of the boat when you are gluing the outside. Did you use one for fitting the insides?

[@adpsimpson]

Hey, glad you like the videos! Makes it worthwhile to have made them. Do you mean the bar visible at about 9 minutes? I found the hull had a tendency to close in a bit, presumably since I fibreglassed the outside first. Then with the heating of the garage over the few days it takes for the glassing, the cedar dried out and shrank a bit. So, to get the dimension across the gunwales correct, I made a telescopic spreader bar, and used it until I added the thwart (at the start of the next video).

[@sammyslavvu1981]

Great job! May I ask what screws and glue you used to fix your gunwales to the canoe.

[@adpsimpson]

Hi Sammy. They're glued on with thickened epoxy. No screws.

[@sammyslavvu1981]

@@adpsimpson amazing, thank you for the info. I am in the process of building my first plywood canoe, hopefully I'll finish it this year. Your canoe is beautiful and your woodworking skills is next to none. Thank you for sharing your progress :)

[@adpsimpson]

Good luck Sammy - it's satisfying to get it in the water! I think I said at the end of this video, it would have been much easier to use screws and epoxy, it was very difficult to hold the gunwales in place with only clamps. Something like 15x4mm stainless screws through the hull into the inwales every 25cm or so, then 35x4mm screws through the outwales into the inwales, countersunk and plugged.

[@sammyslavvu1981]

@@adpsimpson good idea. I'm hoping I have enough clamps to hold everything in place. I can't wait to get it on the water, there will be a KZbin slide and a launch once I have finished it. Watch this space.