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Don't know ezactly what you're building but 17 1/2 degrees seems a bit skinny for a stem piece poke around here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8404&hilit=curved+stem

flat bottom, hard chine is what you need the Chitimachi Idians down in the marsh would build pirogues with a slight side to side bottom curvature to allow their pirogue to break the vaccum

don't know lapstrake - sorry

everything goes in at the same time i use new (small) potatoes as they cook quicker, if you're using large potatoes, cut them up so they cook faster

whole same technique as crawfish but boil a few minutes longer

only good to 350 degrees - reckon that's when the glue that holds the stone pieces together begins to degrade would not want to use this pan for frying anything

there are as many ways to cook crawfish as there used to be hair on my head this time of year, with the weather warming up, the popular way is to boil them in water with enough seasoning to make your head sweat and your mouth burn. There's lots of prepackaged seasoning mixes around here, my...

I never said anything about solo paddling or a light load my question had both loaded such that they were almost halfway down in the water (at the midpoint) -not a particularly light load I would have thought that assuming both were trimmed level was obvious -

Don't know why you're hung up on the paddler having to reach - I don't paddle a 38" beam pirogue at the 38" point, i don't paddle a 28" beampirogue at the widest point. I move back to about a 20 or 22" beam. So I want to take the paddler out of the discussion. The real question - if anybody can...

sorry Matt, but when you posted this: "If all other things are the same, it would be close" I thought you meant there wouldn't be much diference in paddling the two pirogues Ron, Let's unmuddy the water and get back to the original premise - maybe I should have started a separate thread. BUT...

Matt, it took us a half dozen posts to finally agree that all things being equal, there's not much difference. Don't worry about the paddler reaching over the wide beam. Folks i know do'nt paddle from the center of the boat. I usually back up so my short arms are comfortable. In fact, if i have...

That's the question, with both boats having the same load, the wetted area seems to be very similar (within 3%) shouldn't the ease of paddling be essentially the same? BTW I've seen pirogues with a 55 degree flare, fellow said that's the way they built them in his family. You'd think if they...

you're right, however, by the time i bury the wide flare 10" in the water, I'm carrying at lot more weight than when I've buried the narrow flare 10" in the water that's apples and oranges my comparison was with the same weight in both pirogues and, barring any mistakes I may have made, they...

Beekeeper came by this morning to help Friend Keith and I put together a 100 year old sugar cane mill - but that's a whole 'nother story The side discussion turned to displacement, flare, wetted area, stability, ease of paddling Really what we were wanting to compare was the effects of side...

folks tend to gravitate to whatever paddling style suits them i paddle mostly on the same side but, instead of the j stroke, i rotate the paddle +/- 90 degrees briefly at the end of most strokes. The blade of the paddle acts like a rudder for any directional correction. i also try to keep my...

OK, I'm here but I'm not sure I can add much to what you're proposing to do as we have little to no experience in building with cypress and fiberglass. But, not being knowledgeable has never kept me from having an opinion........ first off 3/8 planks seems a little thin, we typically nail the...

starting with flat rectangular panels are doable as Chuck has demonstrated - just another way to skin the proverbial cat but if you're building a pirogue with considerable flair and need panels similar to the one i've shown, you waste a lot of wood trimming the rectangular panel to the final...

there's more than one way to skin a cat and more than one way to strip a pirogue i built a stripper by gluing up strips into a flat panel and bending the sides around a couple of jigs just like building a plank pirogue here's a shot of one of the sides roughed out here's a side trimmed to...

can't givr you an educated answer on that - our logs were cut over a hundred years ago, so we don't know if they were growing or dormant when cut I'd hazard a guess that, if you cut it now, you'd have less problems drying it out

The thread Mike referred to pretty much covers what we do. We use cypress because it was what was used, it was readily available and the old growth trees lasted almost forever. Best I can find out, folks used whatever trees were available, some of the most rot prone species won't last as well...