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Still Smilin'
25th July 2010, 11:36 PM
Hi all, this is a design by Brian Schulz on Cape Falcon Kayaks. Brian came out to Australia and held a courses in Sydney and Hobart. I built one of his F1s in the Hobart course and now have had the opportunity to build another.

I chose to use Paulwnia for the longitudinals, a nice straight piece of King Billy pine for the keel, bamboo for the ribs and a Ballistic Nylon skin and urethane finish.

The deck was ready to assemble last Sunday night. The gunwles had been morticed for the ribs and deck beams, deck beams had been laminated up and all the materials were assembled.

Still Smilin'
25th July 2010, 11:55 PM
Day 2 saw the bamboo ribs bent in, keel lashed in place and the cockpit coaming started.

Still Smilin'
26th July 2010, 12:41 AM
OK, think I've worked out how to insert pics now.......:)

Day3 was about 12 hours long but it saw a lot accomplished -

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4806-f1-pb-47.jpg

Stringers lashed in place, secondary stringers pegged in (up on the gunwales), front and rear deck stringers in, and out of picture the coaming has been laminated up and the first lamination for the spray skirt rim is under glue.

Spent the last few minutes in the workshop taking photos...

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4807-f1-pb-56.jpg

Day4 was big as well. Started with more photos out in the daylight while the cockpit coaming was being finished.

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4808-f1-pb-64.jpg

The stitching complete and time for some more of the type of view that keeps me building skin-on-frame...

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4809-f1-pb-77.jpg

Day5 was an "easy" day, just a bit of playing with deck lines and locations, made up the deck line tensioning blocks and a keel rubbing strip, then applied the urethane coating - then beers all 'round !!!!

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4810-f1-pb-83.jpg

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4811-f1-pb-84.jpg

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4812-f1-pb-86.jpg

And Day6 - install deck lines and back brace and go for a paddle - oh, a greenland paddle was built in there somewhere....

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4813-f1-pb-88.jpg


http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4815-f1-pb-96.jpg

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/40398-still-smilin-/albums/smile14/4816-f1-pb-112.jpg

That's it for this week:)

KJL38
26th July 2010, 11:17 AM
Very nice, I had a paddle in an F1 in Wellington earlier this year and liked it. How is the paulownia holding up as gunwales, is it strong enough? How much does it weigh?

Still Smilin'
26th July 2010, 04:33 PM
I've got no issues with the Paulownia and I'd use it again. The Gunwales took the routing of the rib mortices just fine, I didn't see any evidence of cracking (which can happen on the inner surface under pressure from the ribs). The only concession I made was to use longer, larger diameter screws embedded in Bote Cote to mount the foot braces.

All up weight without floatation bags has come in at 11kg, which is 1.5 kg lighter than my Red Cedar version, however, the urethane coating is such that some of this difference could be there.

Cliff Rogers
27th July 2010, 10:25 PM
Good one PJ. :2tsup:

Still Smilin'
27th July 2010, 11:29 PM
Hi Cliff, I've just spent an hour and a half in a cold, wet Derwent to get this shot - what do you think? Some aspects of skin-on-frame just can't be replicated with a Quick Canoe 155 - should have let me put all those holes in her.... :)

Cliff Rogers
27th July 2010, 11:58 PM
Yeah but can you put 2 blokes & a load of firewood or a couple of eskies in it? :rolleyes: :D

Still Smilin'
28th July 2010, 12:01 AM
As I said, there are some aspects of a Quick Canoe 155 that just can't be replicated with Skin-on-Frame:)