Two new ventures:
1] A home build MacGregor Sailing Canoe
2] A wife encouraged/enforced blog
Here goes!
The project in hand (canoe not wife or blog)
The credit for this beautiful canoe (above) apparently goes to Tom Moen (for more details
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=1634 ). Hope you will not mind us admiring this image Tom, until our own project kicks off further.
Ready to Build!
So far, we - oh by the way 'we' is my father and I (more on that later) have got the workshop cleared and the strongback built
Some classic wood/canvas canoes on display at Penobscot Marine Museum. The first three shots are a Morris with extraordinarily shaped recurved stems. Numbers 4 and 5 are an Old Town sponson canoe (sorry, dont know the exact model) named Susannah, hanging upside down and soon to be part of a new exhibit called Rowboats and Rusticators. Interesting thing about sponson canoes: the sponsons were applied after the rest of the canoe was built, and the sponsons themselves were built much like boats in their own right, with planking laid over station frames.
