A Canoe for All "Blaue Kiste" Günther Hoffmann
Design Brief : To be practical, easy to transport, construct, cheap to build, safe and comfortable.
Materials List these amounts are approximate: 3 Sheets (122x244cm) Lauan-marine ply 4mm thick 2 wood strips. 3X2 cm longer than canoe 2 Woven glass fabric (200 grm per m²) in 1m width and 5m length 6.6 kg of Epoxy resin including hardener 2 Bulkead boards 100x50cm marine ply 12 mm thick Some basic hand tools and a few screws That's it
And also not to forget this outstanding computer program CARENE, supplied by Rob Hewitt of U K Epoxy Resins The following three images show the data used to produce this canoe
When you have finished the design you can print out drawings and offset tables for each section of the hull, transfer these onto your sheets of plywood and assemble using stich and tape construction . As this canoe is 4.5 metres long storage may be a problem however this can be resolved by simply making it in two halves as shown below
When the two halves are joined as shown below you have a sizable boat
As you can see you can relax comfortably in half of the canoe even on your own drive
With the two halves sheathed on the outside with epoxy and woven fibreglass cloth and the inside sealed with epoxy a profesional boat is starting to appear
The seats are woven cord and are extremly comfortable
The photographs below show how easy it is to launch and manouver as good a a Canadian at much less cost
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