Building Skin on Frame Canoes at Belmont Hill

On the Back River  Taking a break at Sawyer's Island Paddling down the Sheepscot River On the b...

We finished the hulls in the last week of school but were still putting on final coats of varnish on Prize Day, when we put the boats o...

After finishing the skins, we put several coats of a heavy polyurethane finish on to waterproof and strengthen the skins. We used a pro...

We did much of the final sanding and varnishing out on the lawn just outside our shop. The boats were light enough to slip out ...

Fitting the Inwales Andrew clamps an inwale in place Our inwales are duplicates of the gunwales, cut out of 3/4" stock fir....

Because we needed a little more wood for ribs and floorboards, I got in touch with Miles Amerault who runs a one man bandsaw mill j...

Here is a 90 second clip showing Colton and Nick bending a rib into Nick's Arrow 14 hull.  The rib is 1/4x1/2 quarter saw...