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Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
By:brian scarborough
Date: 7/9/2010, 8:45 pm

Dave, that is simply gorgeous. Even though I don't take to canoes, sure makes me desirous...

Brian

: It's my take on Henry Rushton's "Igo" Canadian style
: canoe.

: 15' long x 30" wide, built with WRC stringers, bent Ash ribs
: and with Redwood trim. Weighs about 36lbs.

: The Igo is one of the more user friendly of the Canadian Canoe
: models that Rushton sold, the Ugo and Arkansaw Traveller being
: two other, similar, boats. All three were narrow, by modern
: standards, but the Igo has noticeably less deadrise than the
: others, and should be more stable.

: I developed the offsets from drawings and various photographs,
: comparing them to John Gardner's Arkansaw Traveller offsets,
: which he - vastly more skilled than I'll ever be - acquired from
: the same sources.

: I only build these things because I need the attention, so feel
: free to comment!

: Dave Gentry

: Here it is, fully ready to paddle.
: And, yes, I knows how to spell Arkansas . . . .

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction - New Canoe *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 7/9/2010, 7:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
Bill Hamm -- 7/12/2010, 2:37 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction - *NM*
Bill Hamm -- 7/12/2010, 2:34 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction - *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 7/11/2010, 10:30 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
Michael -- 7/10/2010, 8:07 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2010, 12:28 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
Clayton Plunkett -- 7/10/2010, 9:21 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2010, 12:26 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
Will Clarke -- 7/9/2010, 9:02 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: I'm just feeding my addiction -
brian scarborough -- 7/9/2010, 8:45 pm
Another pic *NM* *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 7/9/2010, 7:56 pm
And another *NM* *PIC*
Dave Gentry -- 7/9/2010, 7:57 pm