Oct28
Build a sailing canoe for $15
How to build the $15 canoe, 1876-style
The $15 figure is at 1876 prices, I’m sorry to say. In this excerpt from a Scientific American Supplement dated that year, Victorian-era writer Paddlefast provides offsets and the rest for a canoe with a simple hull that looks eminently buildable by either clinker or strip-planking methods.
In our time, we’d build it with water-tight compartments fore and aft, but many details could easily remain the same. For example, clever details here including halliards that are led forward through a block to provide forestays, and the drawings include outriggers for rowing.
Thanks here go to Craig O’Donnell, proprieter of the always-intriguing Cheap Pages.
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Chris Partridge Oct 28th 2008 at 09:33 pm 1
$15? In the words of the immortal Barry Mackenzie, “Blimey, that was more than a week’s work where I came from in 1873!”