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Title: Building the Six-Hour Canoe: Designed by Mike O'Brien by Richard Butz, John Montague, William Bartoo ISBN: 0-9610396-7-1 Publisher: Tiller Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great fun
Comment: Although the six hours refers to someone with experience and possessing all the tools and wood, the design is perfect for people (me, for example) with no woodworking experience. Because I had little experience, I had to refer to Tom Hill's extraordinary Ultralight Boatbuilding, which though written for a skilled woodworker includes important details left out of Six-Hour. There are only a few things I would want to change to Six-Hour:
There are two lists of materials, one on p. 11, one on p. 58. They do not match. The one on 11 has a frame bottom, but this is not in 58, and 58 does not list the keel. They mention a "full sized pattern" for the gussets on p. 18, but no such pattern exists. They also might as well include the butt block procedure for two 4x8 pieces of plywood in the main part of the book because most places on the planet do not have 4x16 pieces of marine grade plywood. Also, readers should work hard to find a source of cheap bronze screws before they start (the project requires about 120 of them--not the 50 given in the text--and they are expensive!) It would also have been nice if they had photographs showning the canoe at main stages in the process. The above minor points did not detract from the 30 hours or so of pure enjoyment I had in using this book to build a canoe. I hope the authors come out with the sailboat version they promise.
Rating: 5
Summary: Building the 12 hour canoe
Comment: We have made these as part of youth programmes in Western Australia. They take us about 30 hours to build with groups of 4 to 5 working on them. These people have never made anything before so progress is slower than you would first think. They are a great project, we use cheap ply and paint them well seems to work fine. The group gets a great deal for the building process. I keep meaning to build one for myself, perhaps this time round I will
Rating: 5
Summary: It can be built in a weekend
Comment: I have taken a class a Buffalo State College with John Montague, the author. In the class I built the weekend skiff, a row boat/sail boat. I have also built the 6-hour canoe with high school age kids in the Adirondack Mountains at a summer camp. It took a group of 6 kids to build 2 canoes and approximately 4 days working about 4 hours per day, this includes painting the canoe which is not part of the 6 hours of building the canoe. The directions are easy to follow and the cost is very inexpensive. The canoes have lasted 2 summers so far and look to withstand many more. They are made of marine grade plywood. Have fun building one yourself.
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Title: Ultralight Boatbuilding by Thomas J. Hill ISBN: 0071567038 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Canoe Paddles: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own by Graham Warren, David Gidmark ISBN: 1552095258 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: 03 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Featherweight Boatbuilding: A Woodenboat Book by Henry "Mac" McCarthy ISBN: 0937822396 Publisher: WoodenBoat Publications Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Build the New Instant Boats by Harold H. Payson ISBN: 0071559663 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Canoe Shop: Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build by Chris Kulczycki ISBN: 007137227X Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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