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Okume too expensive?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:26 pm
by rudar
So Santa brought me a neat book called ``The Canoe: A living tradition'' It includes this:
The description reads:
Canoe made out of newspaper, 10'8" long, 28" wide. Paper boats were made in Troy, New York, in the late 1800's by Elisha Waters and Son, who specialized in racing shells. In 1874 Nathaniel Bishop made a journey from Quebec down the intercoastal waterway to the Florida Keys. He used a conventional canoe until he reached Troy, where he switched to a fourteen-foot paper boat. The newspaper canoe shown here, constructed using white glue and coated in varnish, with thwarts of ash and black cherry, was made at a YMCA camp in New Jersey in 1983 to commemorate Bishop's Journey.
So, who needs all this expensive marine plywood and fiberglass and epoxy, anyways? Though maybe newsprint and epoxy would be better than white glue. I wonder what scantlings to use?
SB18
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:17 pm
by JohnMc
Hello, I like it
isn't that realy all ply is anyway
Maybe five sheets thick I'll really have a light SB18.
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JohnMc
SB18--Started
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:05 pm
by ks8
Make sure it's marine grade newspaper... less voids...
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:27 am
by jacquesmm
Try with epoxy resin instead of white glue. It should work.
Who volunteers to build the first one?
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:42 am
by frazoo
Getting volunteers to build, no problem.
volunteers to take out, ...., .??
frazoo
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:29 pm
by Deedaddy
jacquesmm wrote:Try with epoxy resin instead of white glue. It should work.
Who volunteers to build the first one?
It is wood fiber and no voids.
I may just do it.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:54 pm
by jbo_c
Sadly, this crossed my mind before I ever read this post. I think like a kid.
In fact, I tried to get my wife to finance a chicken wire canoe just cause it would be so funny to take it out on the local lake. $300 and 25 hours of labor for a laugh is a little pricey, though. She wasn't buying.
However, she has tentatively agreed to me building Jacque's camp skiff when it comes available if it isn't over 22 feet. I'd build it anyway, but an authorized build is so much less painful.
Jbo
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:44 pm
by Cracker Larry
volunteers to take out, ...., .??
Heck, I'll take it out. The worse that can happen is that it sinks. Bring it to Crystal river in April
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:06 pm
by nort
If my memory is correct, there was a guy a couple of years ago who was building canoes out of paper. He posted some pictures and I think he was going to sell a kit. Anyone else remember this or do I need to have a medication check.
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:26 am
by ks8
jbo_c wrote:... an authorized build is so much less painful.
We need another acronym...
SAB
spouse authorized build.