SOF 15' 22'' build

[woodman]

I am working on cutting the stringers to set flush against the bow...
I clamp a pc. of 1/2'' stock between the top and keel as a saw guide..




The gunwales are next..

Steve

 

[Kayak Jack]

Nice joinery. Looks like the Yankee Workshop.

 

[Wannabe]

That is going to be one sleek little boat from the looks of it. I have never been in a SOF boat, but I have flown in a SOF airplane.
Bob

 

[woodman]

from the bow....


The stern..

 

[woodman]

I should have taken one of the yaks out today..no wind ..sunny and nice.. :roll:
Instead I lashed the kayak together ..Well almost complete... sore hands and I'll be dreaming about those figure 8 stopper knots...
http://kudzucraft.kudzupatch.com/video/lashing.php

 

[Kayak Jack]

Woodman San, I used to participate in a forum called the Baidarka Net, guys who built skin on stick boats. Is that still around?

 

[woodman]

Jack never heard of it..

Steve

 

[Kayak Jack]

They had some good chatter. I'd get amused, though, at the various breeds of "purists" who chided guys who riveted their joints instead of lashing with nylon, "like the Aleuts did." I paddled a few times with a guy who made a skin-on-stick boat with 2X4's and willow branches. The 2X4's were his gunnels, with holes drilled along in the bottom edges. He stuck in willow branches (from a tree in his front yard) as ribs. Had a nice pair of boats.

 

[woodman]

I saw a website that had a canoe built like that...

pics....it weighs 18lbs at this stage....

 

[woodman]

 

[Kayak Jack]

Interesting how the configuration of the ribs is concave instead of convex. I'm guessing that is so the skin flows smoother around the frame, and then so does the water.

 

[woodman]

Jack.. I found the site ..a canoe with willow ribs..
http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/canoe2.htm

 

[Kayak Jack]

He did a nice job of designing and constructing, didn't he. Bailing water will be a problem, and I'd expect some to be entrapped even when the boat is rolled on edge.

 

[woodman]

Oh man !!!!can you imagine trying to wash out you're boat after fishing....I didn't think about that..even with the plywood frame and stringer construction..fish scales and or what ever could get wedged in between the fabric and the stringers...
This type of boat is only going to be pristine inside if you never put it on the water...

 

[Kayak Jack]

Yeah, without smooth, continuous paths to drainage, the boat will begin to rot out the day it's launched. And, it will be smelly along the way. Royalex was a giant step forward. Fiberglass was OK.

 

[woodman]

Reply from Kudzu on cleaning out a SOF....
You will never get it all out.

While on the water you can put put water in the boat and push if forward and backward really quickly and agitate it and loosen up some, then dump it. I think that MIGHT loosed up some of the stuff trapped by pushing the skin away with the force of water. Or put it on stands and rinse the inside with a garden hose.

I no longer worry about. I try not to bring any mud or dirt into the boat, I rinse my feet before I pull them it, but it happens. I just don't worry about it. Never caused a problem.

Plus in the book he mentions fliping the boat over and hosing it out the water will run out the cockpit...

 

[Kayak Jack]

Here's a case where I'm glad to be wrong. Happy paddling.