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12th August 2014, 05:20 PM
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G'day Cescasey, If you aren't an experienced...
G'day Cescasey,
If you aren't an experienced paddler, 50mm lower is likely to be a good idea. The last page or two in this thread has quite a bit of discussion on that.
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24th February 2014, 11:35 AM
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Paddling solo, I do as you did; I sit on the...
Paddling solo, I do as you did; I sit on the closest seat to the middle unless it's windy, in which case I kneel on the floor with my belly against the centre spreader. It's far from easy to handle...
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23rd February 2014, 03:44 PM
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Congratulations! :U
Congratulations! :U
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21st February 2014, 10:12 PM
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Beautiful! Great work. I love the finished...
Beautiful! Great work.
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31st January 2014, 07:36 PM
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Todd, the top faces of my seats are now 170mm...
Todd, the top faces of my seats are now 170mm below the top of the gunwhale at the front edge. (remember, the front edge of the two seats are at the same distance from the middle of the boat.)
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31st January 2014, 11:17 AM
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The seats... I first installed them at or very...
The seats... I first installed them at or very near the drawn height.
We found it felt unstable. That's my wife and I with up to four small kids aboard. When the other adult moves it doesn't feel... -
30th January 2014, 10:38 AM
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Beautiful! Don't you love how it just suddenly...
Beautiful! Don't you love how it just suddenly becomes boat-shaped. :-)
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28th January 2014, 09:44 AM
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I think I commented on it somewhere in the...
I think I commented on it somewhere in the general 'Quick Canoe... Add yours' thread (or similar). The side panels of mine wanted to pull *in* away from the tape, so I ended up holding it all in...
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27th January 2014, 03:38 PM
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Looking good! Those butt joints on my QC were...
Looking good!
Those butt joints on my QC were my first ever use of epoxy. Yep, it was stressful alright and I used far too much. I didn't glue it to the floor, though. There was lots of cling wrap... -
26th January 2014, 10:45 AM
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Cheering you on from the Sunshine Coast, QLD. ...
Cheering you on from the Sunshine Coast, QLD.
My Quick Canoe went past Wallaga Lake on the highway a few weeks ago on top of the car, en route from Jervis Bay to Eden. I wanted to stop at every... -
23rd June 2013, 05:49 PM
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Ratbag, I love the colour scheme! :D Well,...
Ratbag, I love the colour scheme! :D
Well, we spent three weeks using both canoes in Round Hill Creek (Seventeen Seventy, QLD) in May. I am very impressed with the stability of the QC. It took... -
10th May 2013, 07:28 PM
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Yep. I'll give that a go. I'm away camping...
Yep. I'll give that a go.
I'm away camping with it for the next three weeks, so it will get plenty of time on the water for me to decide whether/how much to modify things. I just wish this blasted... -
10th May 2013, 02:17 PM
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That's only half of us! All six of us went out...
That's only half of us!
All six of us went out in it this morning. It wasn't all that happy about the added draft when trying to cross oyster beds (ouch), but handled itself okay. The kids are 11,... -
10th May 2013, 10:00 AM
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Splash!!
Launched yesterday morning in Round Hill Creek. Yay!
First impressions: So light!
It's directionally incredibly stable. It really grips the water and takes some force to turn it. This is good... -
25th April 2013, 06:10 PM
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I got a tiny bit sidetracked on a detail. I'll...
I got a tiny bit sidetracked on a detail. I'll blame my dad for this, as he suggested it originally and I just had to try it.
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22nd April 2013, 11:14 AM
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Ooh! I love the planter! That's cool! :-) ...
Ooh! I love the planter! That's cool! :-)
'Going to'?? I already like it! I almost have to go for a test paddle before I paint it! -
20th April 2013, 08:28 PM
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Progress! 264201 The last epoxy...
Progress!
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The last epoxy waterproofing is going on tonight, on the keel.
Then she needs something in the rope holes in the stems to seal those and she'll be watertight.
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22nd March 2013, 09:35 PM
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Okay, okay. I'll settle down. :-)
Okay, okay. I'll settle down. :-)
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22nd March 2013, 02:01 PM
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It looks like a battering ram in that photo, but...
It looks like a battering ram in that photo, but it's not finished!! It WILL be a spike for sinking the competition! :D
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22nd March 2013, 01:58 PM
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Yep. I don't have a cabinet scraper. (It's on my...
Yep. I don't have a cabinet scraper. (It's on my list!) So I set the spokeshave blade at an angle with less than half of it 'biting'. It made the task really easy. I could basically use the...
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22nd March 2013, 10:32 AM
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I have decided to keep this excess length on the...
I have decided to keep this excess length on the keel timber, glass it into the skeg and wrap it in glass for strength, fit a sharpened bronze tip and use it to sink plastic canoes and kayaks! :D ...
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16th March 2013, 11:56 AM
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The outside glass tape is done, plus three coats...
The outside glass tape is done, plus three coats of epoxy on the whole outside of the boat. (Thursday)
Last night I started to sand down the edge of the tape flush with the plywood. I fired up the... -
13th March 2013, 04:34 PM
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Aaaaaaaallllrightythen!! So, I said I'd get...
Aaaaaaaallllrightythen!!
So, I said I'd get back to building in late January, and HERE I AM! Just like I said... err... in mid... March.
Aaaanyway. :-
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26th February 2013, 12:55 PM
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Nope. Have a look a little further back in this...
Nope. Have a look a little further back in this thread, in Dec 2012. I got the bottom out of one sheet of 6mm, as long as it's a 2.5m sheet. You need to push the two bottom patterns right out to the...
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11th December 2012, 07:42 PM
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Gnnnh! Where is a body supposed to get proper...
Gnnnh! Where is a body supposed to get proper boat timber around here on short notice??
A few places said they can get oregon or WRC and dress it for me, but not in a big hurry. The only stuff I... -
11th December 2012, 12:23 PM
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Ah yes... thank you. I would have missed that...
Ah yes... thank you. I would have missed that little detail. I would have made the top edge fair and then planed it off later and not even thought about it!
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11th December 2012, 02:52 AM
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Alrighty... lessee if I can add a photo. I've...
Alrighty... lessee if I can add a photo.
I've just been downstairs and taken off the masking tape along the fillets and cleaned it up a bit before it cures.
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10th December 2012, 09:10 PM
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It's 3D!! The epoxy on the interior hadn't...
It's 3D!!
The epoxy on the interior hadn't cured rock hard yet, so the masking tape came off this morning with about twenty minutes of careful work.
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10th December 2012, 08:48 AM
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...aaaaaand then I forgot to remove the masking...
...aaaaaand then I forgot to remove the masking tape last night. :- Inside edges of parts now have masking tape permanently attached. Ouch.
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9th December 2012, 10:06 PM
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After some hold ups (people keep expecting me to...
After some hold ups (people keep expecting me to do boring stuff like WORK) I have all the sheet parts cut out, shaped, butt jointed and coated inside with two coats of BoteCote epoxy. Tomorrow when...
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4th December 2012, 12:18 PM
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Hmm... sorry I hadn't come back and updated the...
Hmm... sorry I hadn't come back and updated the thread. I partly marked up a 2440 sheet and found I *couldn't* get both parts of the bottom onto it. How did you do it?
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28th November 2012, 02:49 PM
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4mm sides, 6mm bottom... out of one sheet?
Hi all, I have a couple of sheets of 4mm ply already, and I'm considering buying one sheet of 6mm and building a Quick Canoe.
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13th November 2012, 02:58 PM
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Michael wrote to me: "I wouldn't trust 3mm ply...
Michael wrote to me: "I wouldn't trust 3mm ply unless the faces are very good and don't require patching or fairing."
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13th November 2012, 12:45 PM
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Yes. You'll need two sheets. I haven't checked...
Yes. You'll need two sheets. I haven't checked the materials list thoroughly yet, but I have pointed out the error to Michael. :-)
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13th November 2012, 08:49 AM
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Oops. Yes. I should have said which species....
Oops. Yes. I should have said which species. Sorry.
I'm looking at "Pink Satinwood" which is Buchanania spp.
It's said to be similar in weight and strength to Gaboon. I was planning to use this... -
12th November 2012, 04:30 PM
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drop-in outriggers: 3 or 4mm ply? and how long to build?
Hi everyone,
I'm on the verge of ordering ply to build me a set of canoe outriggers to Boatmik's plans.
The material list says 3 or 4mm ply. Have you built yours in 3 or 4? Do you think 3 is too...