lisian

I am amazed at how easy this has all came together so far In between family (2 little kids) and a busy household, any stolen few hours I can get I am working on my canoe. I just want to say to anyone wondering if they could possibly make on of these. Of course you can, give it a go. Gunwales all glued on, will just wait a day or two before I start planning properly. Seat started, I hope this will be strong enough and not too high. The start of my rear breasthook, I have been having fun laminating timber (never reall done it before), I have laminated my thwarts today and started a laminated Greenland paddle aswell.

I just bought Jeff's book because I was interested in the Fly Fisher also I am sure Jeff will answer your questions, but I can tell you it is 13 1/2' long, beam say's 4' (I am guessing that is how wide it is?)

I have been playing with my spacing for the gunwales, and I have decided they won't be even (much to my husbands horror, but hey it is my canoe), I have taken 5/16 of an inch off the top of each thingy on top of the frames and checked out the blocks to hide the plywood. Now I am hoping it doesn't rain tomorrow so I can start to glue the gunwales on

Thanks, I have sent an email to find out about pricing How long were the lengths you got? I am assuming I will be doing scarf joints.

I now have the bow and stern lashed on I had my 84 year old grandfather who was a carpenter in his day, call in yesterday to see what I was up to. He couldn't fathom that all the frame was just lashed together. He just kept saying, 'I would want to put some glue and nails in that', 'Get some Stainless Steel nails'. He was very impressed with it, but just couldn't get his head around what would strengthen it up.

Just about to laminate these timbers to make my breasthooks, I know they will be heavy but they will look good. The idea is to have them approx. 1 1/2" thick towards the centres and then taper them out to all the edges giving a nice curve. All of this timber is Meranti, just goes to show the difference in colour that is available and the difference in weight huge. I am a sculptor generally, so to me this is a practical piece of artwork Lisa.

Locally, there was really no other options for me, Western Red Cedar was out of my budget. Otherwise really you just find Pine everywhere. I plan on building a kayak after this one, I may consider a trip to Sydney to purchase Paulownia but I am told it is also hard to source and I am not sure on the prices.

Wow, in Australia it cost me $50 AU which is over $50 US, for a 7 foot piece of 2 x 4 Western Red Cedar!!! Hirilonde, they are some nice paddles

It does get called Maple and Miranti here, the lighter the colour more towards pink and very pale, is much lighter than the darker red timber. I fished through and picked out the lightest pieces. Makes a big difference on the density and weight. I did want to use Western Red Cedar but it is very expensive here and harder to source. One quote I got was $440 for the Western Red Cedar, that was cut into the sizes I needed, but still that was very excessive. The timber in the frame/stringers etc comes in at around 10kgs so far, so I should be on track for the right weight range The plywood is also a Miranti, marine ply. I did find it splintered an awful lot. http://www.timber.net.au/?option=com_species&name=Light%20Red%20Meranti&Itemid=439

Thanks Jeff, I plan on it just being my canoe, but I know that the kids are going to want to come out in it with me for a paddle as they are excited about it. I just hope we don't end up in the water haha. Weight limit wise we will be fine and my son is only 4 so littler again. Yes, my daughter was wearing gloves, not from the cold though. She had been at Nana and Pops so I could do some of the boat and when she came home she saw I had my gloves on while doing the lashing. (my poor hands were getting too many blisters without the gloves) So she ran in to get hers so she could help Lisa.

Thanks Jeff I am really enjoying building. Hey one thing I have not found anywhere; What is the carrying capacity of the stonefly? I am hoping that I will be able to have myself and a child in it to go for a little paddle (well while they are still little anyways).

Hi, I am new to all this, this is my first ever boat build and I am building the Stonelfy. I fell in love with it's shape while searching the internet for plans and just knew this would be my first build. I am making the whole thing out of Miranti, well I think that's what you guys call it or otherwise in Aus we call it Maple. So far so good, the build is going well. I know my hands are rather sore today after 7 hours of lashing, but well worth it Here are some pics so far, it's just hit winter here and I am building it outside so hoping for nice weather over the coming weeks and not torrential rain that can be expected. Cheers, Lisa. And one of me with my boat