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| My Canoe l Photos | |
| The Launch | |
| It took two weekends to make |  |
 | 15/03/03 - We steam bent 3 pieces of cedar and 3 pieces of ash together to make the inside and outside Stems for each end. We used a tea urn and a pipe for this. 22/03/03 - Glued the Stems together with expoxy glue |
| 05/04/03 - We have started to put the cedar strips on; stapling the strips to the mold and glueing them together with wood glue. |  |
 | Me, shaping the stems so the cedar strips fit snug on the end. |
| Katie wiping the excess glue off |  |
 | 06/04/03 - It started to take shape after a full days work on it. |
| 14/04/03 - One side of the hull is planked in. |  |
 | 16/04/03 - Each Piece of wood now has to be cut to fit. This seem to be taking its time. |
| A Helping Hand - From left; Jane, Jo (Chief Gluer) and Jason |  |
 | 20/04/03 - The Final Piece has been put into place after a couple of hard day work. We then cut the sides to make the curves of the sheer-line.. |
| Here you can see where we have tried to match the colours up. |  |
 | 26/04/03 - Finished shaping the outside stems and glue them on, Katie has now remove all the staples |
| Sanding down the canoe so it is nice and smooth |  |
 | Here we have filled in all the little gaps and now start to look like a canoe. |
| 4/5 May - Finally finished sanding. Put the fiberglass cloth and first coat of epoxy on. |  |
 | Katie painting the epoxy on.(nice suit!!!) |
| After 6 hours waiting the second coat is applied. it starting to look good. |  |
 | 10/11 May - It off the mold at last I Cant Believe how light it is |
| It had it first coat of epoxy inside |  |
 | Last Coat of epoxy applied. Just just trimming to fit and to varnish it. |
| Here my first attempt at making the seat with Mortice and Tenon Joint to join the pieces of wood togther. |  |
 | 17/05/03 - Start of a long day. Managed to install all gunwales and deck |
| 18/05/03 - We have planned and sanded the gunwales and decks. |  |
 | We have installed one of seats |
| 19/05/03 -Had a day off work to try and get it done by the weekend. All seat and the yoke installed |  |
  | The first coat of varnish has been applied |
| 23/09/03 - After Months of problems with varnish not drying. The Final coat has just about dryied (Touch Computer Screen). I recommand if anyone every does a project like this always give the epxoy a good clean with water and a Scourering pad untill the epoxy goes dull, and apply the varnish very thinnly |  |
 > | The first seat has been finished |