What's going on here...

[CrkdLtr]

**purged**

 

[sandman]

At leat you have the christmas frogs singing to you while you work.

 

[Paulup]

Fun, i've always wanted to make a pirogue.

 

[Rahllin]

That looks like it would be a lot of fun. Did you get plans for it or design it yourself?

 

[CrkdLtr]

designs came from JEMWatercraft.com they were about $10 and by the time all is said and done I might spend right at $300.

When I'm done I hope for it to look alot like this:

 

[spanky]

 

[lilmoose0]

What a coincidence, I just finished the plans for mine. I traced the plans in cad and scaled them up to the size I wanted. I plan on making this a summer project this year.

 

[CrkdLtr]

What a coincidence, I just finished the plans for mine. I traced the plans in cad and scaled them up to the size I wanted. I plan on making this a summer project this year.

Sweet... BS Get together for boat & ak builds... Epic.

 

[slinkyonrampage]

There's a website that offers tons of plans for boats online for free. I was thinking of building a boat, but I don't have time or a place to do it right now.

 

[CrkdLtr]

Amazing how fast everything comes together

 

[whbonney26]

Looks like its turning out nice.

 

[slinkyonrampage]

Yea, so far it looks pretty good.

 

[CrkdLtr]

Updates:

Inner gunwales are installed. Need to trim some Premium Pine 1x4's down to 1x2's and lean them out to <1/2" thickness for outer gunwales.

And the frogs back keeping me motivated.

 

[CrkdLtr]

Outwales installed, bottom joints taped and glassed.

 

[lilmoose0]

It's coming along pretty well.
I see you used the butt joint method instead of scarfing the edges together. Some people don't like the look of it but in my opinion a butt joint is much stronger.

Keep us posted on her progress. It's motivating me to start mines.

 

[CrkdLtr]

but in my opinion a butt joint is much stronger.

Exactly why I went with the butt joint. Almost weighing 300 lbs I do not want to leave anything to chance as far as structural strength and integrity. Given that I should have went with 1/2 in. bottom but oh well.

With spring fast approaching you should start on yours now to have it ready for the summer for fishing.

 

[lilmoose0]

I already have a canoe & a pirogue to go if I "have" to.

I wanted to be a project for me and my dad to work on. He'll turn 70 in May and we hadn't worked on a fun project in a while.

He was diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago and is now in the tail end of his treatment. He would want me to wait for him.

 

[CrkdLtr]

I already have a canoe & a pirogue to go if I "have" to.

I wanted to be a project for me and my dad to work on. He'll turn 70 in May and we hadn't worked on a fun project in a while.

He was diagnosed with cancer a couple of years ago and is now in the tail end of his treatment. He would want me to wait for him.

I hear ya'. As soon as I finish this one and it works with no problems I'm going to build one for my old man and see if I can't get him interested in the paddling hobby.

 

[CrkdLtr]

OK... Here we go... :shock:


Obviously the pirogue is not 100% yet but I'm taking her out on a test run before I start painting and adding on decking and such.

 

[CajunTim]

Wear your life jacket