BOOKS
CanoeCraft - Revised & Expanded
By Ted Moores - $19.95
Published by Firefly Books 2000 Canoecraft, first published in 1983, is known as the standard textbook on woodstrip epoxy construction. With over 200,000 copies sold, thousands of builders from around the world have discovered that their first canoe can exceed their greatest expectations by using Canoecraft to guide them. Completely revised and expanded in 2000, the book includes five new designs, a chapter on carving a paddle, building without staples and a series of insider’s tips and techniques. Its updated text and fresh design, enhanced by dozens of new photographs, will ensure Canoecraft’s continued place in the workshops of boat lovers and amateur builders everywhere.
Kayakcraft
By Ted Moores - $26.95
Published by WoodenBoat Books
Building an elegant woodstrip kayak is now within the reach of the casual builder. Achieve professional results by following a series of simple steps in a proven order. KayakCraft will show you how to achieve quality work while perfecting simple skills. Included are four highly developed kayaks by Canadian yacht designer Steve Killing, as well as a comprehensive chapter explaining the fundamentals of small craft design and how these components are combined for safety and efficiency.
The Canoe
Edited by John Jennings - $59.95
Published by Firefly Books
 Produced by Firefly Books in collaboration with the Canadian Canoe Museum - THE CANOE is the definitive history of the construction and use of the canoe, kayak, dugout and umiak in North America. Twelve authors write about the craft they know best. Richly illustrated with archival maps, images, artwork and photographs of vintage canoes, THE CANOE presents a comprehensive history of a living tradition that continues to serve and delight the people who use it. Ted contributed the chapter on the manufactured canoe called from Forest To Factory. The authors contributed their time - the royalties from the book go to the Canoe Museum. If you purchase a copy you will have made a contribution to the canoe museum and you will own one of the most beautiful historical books on a Canadian icon - the canoe.
KAYAKS YOU CAN BUILD - an illustrated guide to plywood construction by TED MOORES AND GREG ROSSEL
Published by Firefly Books Ltd. 2004 - $39.95
The dramatic growth in the popularity of kayaks is perhaps not surprising in a world of pricey, obnoxiously loud personal water-craft. As a low impact way to explore wilderness or to paddle through cottage country, these elegant, easy to transport craft are hard to beat.
The availability of kits with pre-cut plywood components has given a growing number of paddlers the freedom to build a strong lightweight kayak to their specifications and at a reasonable price. The common building methods used are "stitch and glue" or "tack and tape". A typical stitch and glue kayak kit contains pre-cut plywood planks, epoxy and hardware.
To assemble the hull, holes are drilled along each plank's edge and the plank is temporarily wired or "stitched" to the adjoining plank. The seams are then glued and covered with epoxy and fibreglass cloth. This simple construction process demands neither special skills nor a woodworking shop. All that is necessary is the desire to build it right.
255 pages, 450 colour photographs
CONTENTS:
1. A Short History of the Kayak
2. Choosing the Right Kayak
3. Setting up the Workshop
4. Tools, Materials and Supplies
5. Plywood Boat Building Techniques
6. A Kayak Builder's Journal
- The Coho (Pygmy Boats)
- The Mill Creek (Chesapeake Light Craft)
- The Enterprise (Bear Mountain Boats)
7. Glossary and Sources
The Enterprise 17'4" Kayak
Historically, most boat designs draw on a combination of tradition, proven technology and innovation. Such is the case with the Bear Mountain Enterprise 17'4" touring kayak. The Enterprise combines a stitch-and-glue hard-chined hull with the fluid curves and natural colour combinations possible with a strip-planked deck.
Drawn by Steve Killing along the lines of his successful Endeavour 17' (a soft-chined sea kayak designed for strip planking) the Entreprise combines straight forward stitch-and-glue building methods and a few traditional boat-building components, with some Bear Mountain innovations thrown in.
Using forms to build the hull upside down is a well proven system adapted from wood-strip/epoxy building methods. A traditional feature is the use of stems to control the ends of the planks and to add integrity to the ends of the hull. Although stems are unheard of in light stitched-seam construction, the effort to make them is more than compensated for by the time they save, as well as the help they provide to make the shape of the kayak predictable.
An important Bear Mountain innovation is bonding of the deck to the sheer clamp. This allows us to join the hull and deck from the outside rather than enduring the ungraceful exercise of glassing from the inside and doing an end pour.
|
