Small canoe

Stickleback may be among the smallest of small boats, but it would be just the right boat to overcome the limitations of all of my larger vessels.

When I walked through the door of the Canadian Canoe Museum in August of 2008, I had no idea what I was getting into. OK, maybe that’s not 100% true. I knew that the CCM had an amazing collec…

Canoe plans for a light, agile pack canoe that tracks well and can over some miles when needed. 13 feet x 28 inches - 25 lbs. Cedar strip construction.

Note: I asked for, and got permission from various UK sailors, and from Solway Dory to use their photographs and link to their pages. Solway Dory does not at present ship their products outside of the UK, because of past problems with damage and liability. I know they do not want to field a lot of emails asking for their products overseas. It is my intention to highlight what I consider to be good design, and to encourage the same kind of thoughtful design and careful craftsmanship here…

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The Quick Canoe Kit is one of the easiest boats there is to build. Our kit consists of precut plywood panels and all the timber you will need

Two Canoes and a Crazy Idea: The idea began with a book I never read called The Six Hour Canoe. The idea of building a canoe in a short period of time seemed to open up the possibility of building the boat in a foreign country with local materials and leaving the boat when the …

Motor canoe plans for amateur and professional boat builders using ply/epoxy, stitch and tape and Cedar strip plank construction.

A classic lightweight canoe designed with Canadian style in mind. Quick and maneuverable in a solo position, and smooth and stable as a tandem.

I was working on a design for a short (slightly less than 8 feet long) small, flat-panel, hard-chine canoe the other day when I clicked the wrong button in my design software. That's when the hard chines became soft and all of a sudden I was looking at a really cute, curvy little canoe! Naturally it must be molded instead of using flat panel construction, but after I saw it I decided to see how much weight it might be able to carry. I found that if the boat weighs 30 pounds it can…