: You saw it one on the Woodenboat site. It was a gorgeous strip
: canoe but it wasn't anything modern. A French boatbuilding
: school did a repoduction of a stripper from 80 years ago.
: Ship-lapped and tapered strips, steamed ribs and clinch nailing.
: There was no edge nailing on those old stripper canoes. The strips
: were too thin. The boat had to be built over a fairly complex
: mold that was stout enough to endure all the hammer blows
: required by the gazillion clinch-nails.

There is a guy locally that builds canoes something like this but instead of nails uses rivits, looked to me like a heck of alot of work but it is pretty. I've never seen one being built so have no idea what he uses for molds. The canoe does end up being fairly heavy, as I remember the 16 footer I've seen weighed around 70 lbs.

Bill H.