Dave,

Congratulations on another beautiful job!

Are the stations made of plywood? Can you list the materials and dimensions that you used for the stringers and other longitudinals (inwhales/outwhales, floorboards etc)? I have wondered, just out of curiosity, if a canoe could be built in this fashion...(I have a copy of Hazen's canoe-building book, with full-size station drawings). If anyone has built one, or has pics, I'd be interested to see them.

kelly t

: OK, this is not a kayak. But this is my favorite forum, and I am pretty
: excited about how it turned out, so I hope you will all forgive me. It is
: a skin on frame boat, though . . . .

: It's a sliding seat rowing wherry, of my own design. I built it using methods
: I extrapolated from building many of Tom Yost's kayak designs. It's
: 18'x33" and weighs about 45 lbs. Skinned with 9oz polyester and
: coated with ZAR polyurethane. Build time was about 11 days, at a cost of
: about $165 in materials.

: In the pics, the sliding seat has yet to be installed. It rows just great
: from the stationary thwart, though - I laughed with every pull for the
: first five minutes!
: The oarlock spreaders are removable, for transport. The sliding seat frame
: will also be removable.

: Questions and comments are welcome!
: Dave Gentry