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The cross ribs were And Canvas Canoe Wood Plans 8th made of barrel hoops which we had soaked in water for a day or so to render them pliable of Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th the Canoe Frame. Copper tacks of the Canoe Frame. Forty cross ribs were nailed on, and at the center of the canoe they were spaced about three inches apart. The center form was then removed and cut along the dotted lines shown Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Canvas And Wood 8th Plans Canoe in Fig.

The semicircular pieces thus obtained were now strengthened with strips on their inner edges, and wedged in between the keelson and the gunwales, to which they were nailed, as shown in Fig. A pair of cleats nailed to the cross ribs served as supports for the seat of the canoe. Before laying on the canvas covering the edges of the gunwales, keelson, deck beams, stem and stern posts were smoothed down with sandpaper.

The frame was laid in the center of Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th the canvas and the latter drawn around it. Then with a large needle and strong twine we sewed both edges of the cloth together with long stitches, lacing the canvas over the frame as a shoe is laced over a foot.

This Wood 8th Canvas Plans Canoe And done, the boat was turned deck downward and the canvas was tacked to the keelson. In each case, before driving in Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th a tack a daub of white lead was applied, to water-proof the spot. At the stem and stern a gore narrow triangular piece was cut out of the canvas so as to make it lie smooth on the frame, and white lead was painted in between the overlapping edges. The canoe was then turned deck upward and the lacing tightened, while we Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th carefully worked out all wrinkles in the cloth.

After tacking the canvas along the gunwales on the outside, it was trimmed off, leaving sufficient margin to be brought over the gunwales and tacked inside.

Two triangular pieces were cut out for the decks, and these were lapped over the outer canvas and tacked to the gunwales. A narrow molding along the edge of Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th the boat served to cover the tack heads and added a certain finish to the canoe. A keel plate 2 inches Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th wide and 1 inch thick was attached to the outside of the boat, and then, after wetting the canvas, it was given a coat of white lead and oil. When this was perfectly dry it was sandpapered and the second coat applied.

A cleat nailed to the pillar at each side of the rudder post served to greatly strengthen the joint. The rudder was hinged to the canoe by a rod, which passed through four brass screw eyes, two threaded into the rudder Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th and a corresponding pair screwed into the stern. For convenience in steering we ran our tiller rope clear around the boat, Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th through screw eyes in the gunwales and a pulley at the stem, so that the steersman could guide his craft from Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th any point in the canoe.

We planned to use our canoe as a sailboat, and had to provide a deep keel, which, for convenience, was made detachable. Screw eyes about twelve inches apart were threaded alternately into opposite sides of the keel plate. Corresponding hooks were attached to the keel in position to hook into the screw eyes, and thus hold the keel firmly in place.

Our boat was fitted with two masts, a mainmast and a mizzen or dandy mast. They were held in brass bands, or clamps, bent around them and secured to the bulkheads, as shown in Fig.

The sails were 8th Plans Canvas And Canoe Wood of the lanteen type. The boom was attached to a strap of leather on the mast, and was thus given freedom to swing around in any desired position. The yard was similarly attached, and was raised by a cord, which passed Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th through pulleys at the top and at the base of the mast and extended to a cleat within easy reach of Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th the occupant of the boat.

A double paddle was fashioned from a board 1 inch thick, 6 inches wide and 6 feet long. It will be observed that we used no iron in the construction of this boat. Uncle Ed has warned us not to, because iron rusts out so easily and is apt to damage both the canvas and the wood with Canvas And Canoe 8th Wood Plans which it is in contact.

A canoe is rather a tipsy thing to sail in, as we soon learned, and it Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th was lucky that we could all swim, else our vacation might have ended very tragically; for the very first time Bill and I tried the boat an unexpected gust of wind struck us and over we went. One thing that bothered Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th us greatly in sailing was the keel of our canoe. It was forever getting twisted, particularly when we tried to make a landing.

There were only a few places along the island where the water was deep enough to permit our coming Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th right up to shore without striking the keel. The fastening was not very strong, and every once and awhile it would Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th be wrenched loose. The matter was made the subject of a special letter to Uncle Ed, and in due time his Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th answer was received. As usual, he offered a first-class solution of the difficulty. Lee boards, then, are boards which are hung over the lee side of a boat to prevent it from drifting to leeward, and they serve to take the place of a keel or centerboard.

This provided a support to which the lee boards were secured. The lee boards were Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th paddle-shaped affairs of the form and dimensions shown in Fig. Each paddle near the top was hinged to the end of a board three inches wide and a foot long.

The paddle was held at right angles to the board by means Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th of a hook. Each board was fastened with door hinges to a baseboard which extended the width of the boat and was attached to the crosspiece of the canoe by means of a couple of bolts.

The bolt heads were countersunk, so that the hinged boards could lie flat over them. To the top of each lee board two ropes were attached, Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th one passing forward around a pulley and thence back to a cleat within easy reach of the occupant of the canoe, and the other passing directly back to this cleat. By pulling the former rope the lee board was lifted out of the water, while the latter rope was used to swing the board into working position.

When tacking to port left , the Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th board on the left side of the canoe was lowered and the other was raised, as shown in Fig. Our sailing canoe proved such a good one that we decided to build a second. This was to be much lighter, for Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th paddling only, and of the true Indian shape, with wide, bulging sides and raised stem and stern. The dimension of the forms used are given in Figs. These forms, it will be observed, were notched to receive the keelson and gunwales. The Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th keelson was formed of 1-inch spruce 3 inches wide and 10 feet long.

The stem and stern, which were both of the same shape, were cut from a inch board to the form shown in Fig. This made the boat 12 feet long. The forms were then set in place on the keelson, one at the center and the others three feet each side. As none of these forms was to remain in the boat, nails were driven very lightly into them, with Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th heads projecting so that they could easily be withdrawn when it was time to remove the forms. The cross ribs were Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th passed under the keelson inside of the rib bands and outside of the gunwales, as shown in Fig.

After they were set in place and firmly secured with copper tacks, a band was nailed to the keelson to form the keel.

To produce the raised stem and stern, four wedge-shaped pieces were nailed to the tops of the gunwales, as indicated in Fig. The Wood Canvas Canoe Plans And 8th forms were then removed and were replaced with cross sticks braced between the gunwales. The center cross stick was provided with two corner pieces, as shown in Fig. The canvas was then applied in the manner described before, but was Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th tacked to the upper edge of the gunwale instead of the outer side, and the tacks were covered by a half-round Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th molding which extended around the entire boat.

After the lacing was cut the edge of the canvas was secured to the Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th under edges of the Wooden Canoe Building Plans Out gunwales. The canoe was then completed by fastening on a 1-inch square keel and treating the boat Wood And Canvas Canoe Plans 8th with two coats of paint. The paddle was a duplicate of the one described in connection with the sailing canoe. I remember that we eventually equipped our paddling canoe with a sail and a pair of lee boards, though no record of this fact appears in the chronicles of the society.

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