Building Skin-on-Frame
Double Paddle Canoes
This 150-page book, with its 120 photographs and drawings, details how you can build light, beautiful skin-on-frame-boats.
Also check out our twenty-five minute YouTube video How to Build Skin-on-Frame Double Paddle Canoes, which has a table of contents so you can go right to the part you want to see, including chapters on lashing, steaming, skinning and more.
The perfect bound book $27,
and the popular, spiral bound $29
(plus $4 shipping)
Have a look inside
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For a new book by Hilary Russell, "Tugboats and Shipyards: The Russells of New York Harbor, 1844-1962,"
visit What's New or Tugboats and Shipyards site.
Books
Solo 11½’ Carry Canoe $1,150
LOA 11 ½’
width 28”
Depth 10 ½”
Weight 21 lbs.
(These are approximate figures, depending on the weight of the wood used and other variations in construction.)
Tandem 13½’ $1,350
LOA 13 ½’
Width 30"
Depth 11 ½”
Weight 27 lbs.
(These are approximate figures, depending on the weight of the wood used and other variations in construction.)
Boats for Sale
Because of the flexible nature of skin-on-frame boats, you can create more than 30 different boat designs from the 4 sets of plans below.
How to Make Elegant Variations: ways to adjust your boat’s length, width, and general shape by changing the positions of forms and/or adding forms.
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To produce a sleeker and/or an asymmetrical craft with a bit less volume, move both or one of the end forms inward up to 3½.”
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To gain some length and narrow ends, simply add up to 2 inches at both ends of the gunwales beyond the two outside forms.
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Make a 13½’ canoe or kayak 15½’ long by adding 3½” between forms; or use the same method to make a 11½’ solo boat two feet longer.
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Make an 11½’ canoe 13½', and also widen the boat about an inch by making a second center form, giving you six forms.
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Of course you can also shorten these boats by reversing the techniques above. For instance, you can have a wider, fuller 11½’ solo canoe by shortening the 13½’ tandem/solo canoe.
The below specifications are approximate figures, depending on the weight of the wood used and other variations in construction.
Plans
Brass Stembands 3’, 3/8”, tapped, plus bronze screws
$39 per pair – plus postage
¼ lb. Imitation Sinew
$15 – plus postage
Northern White Cedar Ribs
$2.50 each – plus postage
Parts
Partial Kit includes a set of plans, 20-26 ribs, sinew, stembands, and a skin.
Please call or email for details and pricing (cost depends on the boat that will be built)
Partial Kit
12½’ of 8 oz. polyester
$45 – plus postage
14½’ of 8 oz. polyester
$52 – plus postage
Skins
Standard Solo
Our larger-than-normal Caned Seats measure 12”x 14”, and like us, they are rounded in the back.
$39 – plus postage
Solo/Tandem – can be used as a solo seat or a bow seat
Our larger-than-normal Caned Seats measure 12”x 14”, and like us, they are rounded in the back.
$39 – plus postage
Nylon webbing – heavy duty
$39 – plus postage
Seats
To make a purchase, please either use PayPal or mail a check to
Berkshire Boat Building School
P.O. Box 578, Sheffield, MA 01257
Questions? Email us at hemlockgrange@earthlink.net or call 413-229-2549.
Thank You!