Greetings -- My wife wants me to build her a small strip-built canoe, something like or similar to the Wee Lassie. Now long should that take to build? This will be my frist strip-built; the Merganser is just about finished. I'm trying to talk her into a quick 'S&G' canoe for the summer, and doing the strip-built next winter.

Also, I have the "Six-Hour Canoe" book, but was thinking about building it 'S&G' style, without internal frame or chine-logs. Any comments or suggestions?

Thanks, Greg