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Hi Bill...if you want to contact me be e mail [email protected] will give you my landline no there are a few helpfull tips to using this material...it is well worth as it will...

Hi Bill..Yes i have used this and i am about to cover another canoe in it....the secret i have found is to take the canoe in the garden on a hot day ,on trestles also leave the pvc out in the sun...

Hi Jeff ..the centres of the frames need to be cut more..or are you going to sit on the top of the canoe...the stringers where they start to bend have to be reduced in thickness by planeing just...

Hi Bill...That is looking pretty good what you have done.It got to be on the water next year.....that front cockpit combing joint can be a nightmare though.......I like Jeffs lofting colour idea for...

Hi Bill...I think exterior ply is fine..plenty of yacht varnish into the edges to seal it...that was the whole idea of these kayaks they were built with available materials...it would be interesting...

Hi Jeff..attached hopefully details...having trouble with your e maill address..regards Mike

Hi Jeff ..do you mean skinning the kayak with wood and not pvc canvas..are all the fastnings coming out of the frames..the photographs that enclosed are of a kayak that was built by scouts about 60...

Me to Bill it seems to have taken ages to get the old pbk frame i am working on ready for covering,and it is nearly the end of the summer....that pvc sounds ok if you change your mind about the...

Hi Bill how are you doing ?..The Clark Craft people i think have changed the No's of some of the plans...if your going on Percy's plans i think it is a 18 as it looks nearly 17 ft long,and the...

Hi Jeff a couple of shots just before covering a pbk 20 ..regards Mike

Hi Jeff..It looks a PBK 18..is it about 16 foot 6" aprox long and about 30" beam..looks if need to put a new keel on it and inner cockpit coaming plus the coaming itself..we cover them in the UK with...

Hi Bill..I agree with you about keeping in the spirit of PBs designs..but what i found is that materials that were not around in Percys designing days in my opinion are better suited...i am this...

Hi Bill have you got the covering material yet..there is a tent company just North of Bristol..that supplies the Heavy duty PVC and the canvas for the topsides...regards Mike

Hi ..just a note on Percy Blandford..on facebook there is a Percy Blandford Appreceation page and his grandaughter posts messages about him and his life.....if there is anybody this year is going...

You did quite a lot ...I nearly did the Devizes.but my canoe partner who was in the Marines got posted ....funny you should mention a PBK 18 I have just got the plans for one ...I have got my son...

Hi did you have any success racing in the 50s..I built my PBK 20 in the late 50s I was 13 yers old and used it on the river Thames in the UK for the next 20 years it was a great...

Hi is there a club or is anyone willing to start one for the old Percy Blandford Canoes ...after nearly 40/50 years some of these canoes are still still being sold having been recovered several...

Hi I e mailed 4 sheets.hope there of some help.....regards Mike

Hi Quentin...when is your second edition of your book coming out I was in a bookshop in Totnes yesterday and the chap there had not heard of the second edition..He said to me he would like you to...

Hi...I might be able to help I have a sailplan of a PBK 18 the leeboards go across the beam and use u bolts to fit under the cockpit coaming//the mast you will to have to put a block in the point...

Hi Quentin...well done your book is must read now......kind regards Mike:2tsup:

Hi Quentin......I do apoligise....it seems my spelling of Cockleshell could be improved I think It is just an age thing.... Mike.......:doh:

Hi Quentin...I built a PBK 20 with my father when I was 13 and I canoed for nearly 25 years after that..since that early time and it was about when I was 13 I saw the feature film the Cockshell...

Hi Peter ..thanks for that I think aircraft builders built the Vickers Wellington WW2 bombers fuselage on the same principle it is very stong and light...kind regards Mike

Hi Peter..forgive my ignorance but was is Geodesic Airolite? ...changing the subject did any Gurkha Regiments ever serve with the the Austrialian Forces , why I ask as we in the UK have a Goverment...

Hi Still Smilin...I think you are a bit to far away we are in the UK is that a PBK 20 or 18 with the children ...kind regards Mike:U

Hi Dinghy..my enquires re marine ply have turned up two standards BS 1088 seemed to have been superceded by EU standard which is not as good but it seems if you can track it down BS standard still...

:UHi have you started your PBK kayak yet..I sent for plans of a BK 18 and I am looking for marine plywood suppliers and a material to make the stringers and keelson from my first thoughts are ash,,I...

Hi I am new boy to this site I live in the UK I built with my father in the late 50s a PBK 20 and had a great deal of fun in it two canoes trips down the Thames 120 mile a trips at sea in the Solent...