Building a cedar strip canoe - Episode 8, Closing the Hull

[@willardweston2002]

Thank you for sharing your build with us.

[@willardweston2002]

Love your sense of humor.

[@mkk9901thebest]

Amazing! Great work 👍

[@faceforfpv84]

Nice job Andy!

[@jbehzad]

Amazing !

[@vmcauley]

Well done friend

[@deanmiller5931]

You have inspired me. I'm going to make a canoe for myself, thank you!

[@donwilliams3356]

I'm thoroughly enjoying and learning from this series. I have no plans to build a canoe, but I do have plans to build a strip construction cap for my truck bed. I've got a boat load of sublime c.1840 11/4 cypress, staves from a railroad water tower.

[@adpsimpson]

Sounds like an interesting project. Will you build it in a similar way, bead and cove strips over a mould? That timber sounds like a good find. I'm more than a bit jealous - you'd need a new mortgage to buy anything like that on this side of the pond!

[@markschiba2234]

Where did you get plans for a truck cap?

[@tonyradcliff1021]

Cheers!

[@peterredfern3917]

Hi Andy.... I love this new series of vids.... they have come just in time for me... I love your honesty. Too many other videos make me feel inadequate and wondering why I have the problem solving issues that no-one mentioned! I'm just about to 'close the hull' and all is well in that regard.... I think I might have buggered up one stem fitting by being over eager and trying the mortice before I'd finished stripping.... the tension has opened up the mortice and I've had to apply straps to hold it back....Anyway.. my question is one for the future.... The hull looks great, and I'm looking forward to fairing etc.... but my cedar, although carefully chosen and each strip mirrored from port to starboard, looks really weathered. The colours have disappeared as has the grain detail. When I plane lightly in anticipation, the colours return, but two days later they've turned sandy brown again. How much time do I have from final sanding to applying the first coats of resin/fiberglass.... there is a sort of gap I need explained between ep10 and ep11.... I hope you can help... Cheers pete

[@adpsimpson]

Hi Pete, really sorry, I've only just seen this so maybe you're already beyond this stage. I didn't really have this problem, but coating in epoxy should pretty much reveal the colour of the wood as it should be. I had the epoxy on within 12 hours of the final sanding anyway, both on the inside and out. Once that final sand is done, after wetting it to raise the grain, there's really no reason not to go straight to epoxy. Regarding the problem solving, yes, there's loads of that. If a video is meant to be useful and entertaining, in my mind it needs to show everything that goes wrong too!

[@adriancsimpson]

Looking good. Your pencil must be almost a stub by now with all the sharpening.

[@adpsimpson]

I'll tell you a secret. I've got more than one.

[@robertbolding4182]

well done Andrew, I was wondering how your boat was coming along. It looks good.

[@TTM-GEB]

Very nice finish to the bottom... Just a thought... Could it be built starting at the bottom and working to the gunnels?

[@adpsimpson]

Thanks 👍 And maybe? I think it would be really hard to form the curve of the strips correctly though, and the alternative (straight strips along the join) would lead to weird curved lines on the sides, which wouldn't be parallel with the waterline.

[@dennishillman6205]

How shall I sharpen thee? Let me count the ways. . .

[@peterbest2434]

See the Bad Obsession Motorsport cup. Your build has been much quicker than the Blinky project

[@adpsimpson]

Just wait til I start fitting the Toyota Celica running gear...

[@jimdodd3462]

Next time go Stemless ! You will save a ton of work ! It's just as strong !

[@stickynoodle]

Seems counter-intuitive to build in from the sides to the keel… 10hrs for the last 10 strips, yikes! Does the book explain why you don’t start at the keel and build out?

[@adpsimpson]

I think it would be very difficult to create the curve in the strips at the keel if you started there. The other option would be to fit them straight along the keel, but then you'd end up with them "smiling" along the sides of the boat, which would look a bit odd. I think the real problem is that it's the sort of job you only do once in a lifetime, so never get the opportunity to practice it enough to get faster at it!