How to Build a Canoe Seat

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We broke both out canoe seats on our last Machias River trip. The rear one managed to stay together enough to work, but we had to cut the front one out!
They cost $40 to buy, but I was pretty sure that I could build one cheaper.
Most of them are made from Ash, (I believe) but I had some birch kicking around the shop, so I used that.
I had hoped to reuse the webbing, but it turned out to be too much of a hassle to pull the staples, so I ended up buying new webbing. It was worth it! I used this: amzn.to/2RPRGVU
Be sure to use galvanized staples that will hold up to the weather. amzn.to/37S901W
(I love Porter Cable stuff!)
Tough to find the stainless screws. I finally found these here: www.tgwaterspo...
(I am not an affiliate for them, the screws worked great, though!)
Best of luck! Feel free to post any questions in the comments!
See you on the river!
Ted
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[@jonathangilbey8873]

Great video … are you able to put the length of the small pieces of wood in a comment? I’m planning on building the same seat.

[@tim8148]

Love the vid. What r the length of the small pieces?

[@wesh6959]

When laying out you should use a "running dimension". measure from the same point. Using the tri square and flipping the piece to mark out the dowels can lead to inaccuracies. Looks good tho!!

[@River-Channel]

You're right...not sure why I didn't do that here. I was actually using that technique yesterday installing T+G pine when making cutouts for electrical boxes.

[@greentransmission]

Great job!!

[@River-Channel]

Thanks, Dennis! It's holding up well and we're off on a trip next week!

[@alimohammad7890]

Great video! After watching this, I decided to just buy one...Don't own any of these tools.

[@River-Channel]

Happy paddling!

[@mitchellmole6882]

Thanks for making this video. Using imperial seems like a lot of unnecessary work, appreciate it though!

[@River-Channel]

Thanks!

[@graemed-g522]

Hi, that looks like our canoe, is it a Cadorette? Also, our bottom flexes upward quite a bit when we put the canoe in the water, is it supposed to or should we be adding stringers to stop it from doing that? There are no visible cracks anywhere on the canoe.

[@River-Channel]

It's an Old Town Appalachian. Love it for canoe tripping whitewater rivers! I wouldn't put stringers down. If there are no cracks and it doesn't leak then keep paddling!

[@benkempf]

I would like to replace the large bulky plastic seats in my modern Coleman Scanoe... anything I have to worry about replacing them with this type of seat? Bouancy, wt distribution etc?

[@River-Channel]

No worries...get rid of those plastic things! (I hate 'em...they're hard, cold, and pool water!).

[@andrewdarby8827]

Why not use a tenon ?

[@River-Channel]

I thought the dowels would be faster.

[@andrewdarby8827]

@@River-Channel nice job done though.