Very pleased with how strong and lightweight it is! Light deck is ready to be installed. I have always said that building the models was just like building the real thing, but this is the real thing. A lot of fun. If you build one of the model kits, then you’d be well versed in building a full size one.

Light deck cross members dropped in place. Strong longitudinals. Hanging the canoe by four eye bolts instead of two. Will have six LED Flat panels and painted green.

Showing the 13 footer all glassed and ready to be popped off the forms, then the ribs and rails. The smaller canoe is the 96″, which it is a big canoe by itself. Building the full size canoe was exactly like building one of our kits. Lots of fun. Used the same 8′ strips and butted them.

Same forms as the 96″ canoe but expanded.

Building a strong back and a way to support it is a little more involved than one of the smaller kits, but is all the same. If you build one of the smaller kits, then you should have no problem building a full sized one. This canoe will be going to PA for a commercial real estate conference room.

Greg Moore of Murphy, NC purchased the 96″ Canoe Kit with the Paulownia wood strips instead of the pine. Paulownia is a lot like Cedar, light, easy to work with, glues well, sand’s easily. Greg has moved right along on his project.

Awesome job Kyle! Very detailed job of building the 36″ canoe kit. He also made a nice you tube video of the canoe build and also one of a wood locomotive that he built from scratch. Amazing job is an understatement. Says he only has basic tools.

Sebastian sent in these pictures showing his 54″ canoe coming together. He sanded a bit to much and sanded through the edge of a wood strip. This happens, but is easily fixed by carefully cutting out the damaged strip and gluing in a new one. Sebastian will be sending in a revised photo soon. Thanks for the photos!

Sebastian is working on his canoe outside using a portable set up. This is an excellent way to do it. Enjoy the outdoors and don’t worry about any mess.