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Title: Building a Strip Canoe by Gil Gilpatrick ISBN: 0-89933-349-4 Publisher: DeLorme Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, no nonsense instructions for all levels of experience
Comment: I have built two of canoes described in Mr. Gilpatrick's book (16" laker and 14" puddleduck) and I adapted his building technique to build a 17'6" redbird design from another strip canoe book. I like Gilpatrick's straightforward, no nonsense instructions. Your final product will be a quality boat but not one of such rarified appearance you will cringe at the inevitable scratches and dings that come with canoeing. Once in awhile lightly sand her all over, paint on a new coat of varnish and the boat will look like new. Don't anticipate the final product, just follow his instructions step-by-step and before you know it about 100 hours of work (not counting glue and epoxy curing time) will yield a nice canoe. Less expensive boat builder epoxy will bring your cost down to about $350 - 400 for materials. Shop around.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hooked on "Gil's method" of canoe building!
Comment: I love this book. I spent 4 months of my spare time savoring every word as I built my 18 foot White Guide canoe. I started the project with no experience in boat building and now I'm dying to start another boat and help my friends build boats of their own. Be prepared to spend $1000, give or take a few hundred, on materials. After that and a bit of patience you'll end up with a boat that will turn heads and perform on moving or flat water like a dream. Included in the book also are instructions on caning (weaving with plastic cane) canoe seats and building some fine paddles.
Rating: 3
Summary: If you liked this book, you'll LOVE Canoe Craft by Moores
Comment: I'm truly surprised at all the 5-star ratings this book has earned here. I checked this book out at the library and it was the first book I read about strip-built anything. Even at that time I was shocked at some of the shoddy work shown in the pictures (done by teenage shop class students, not the author).
Maybe I'm a perfectionist, but when I borrowed Kayak Craft by Ted Moores from the library, I couldn't believe the difference in quality of the instruction and work being shown in the book. Moores also wrote Canoe Craft (actually before Kayak Craft) and the two books are very similar. I didn't even finish reading Moores' book before returning it, because I knew I wanted to buy it.
Gilpatrick's book does contain a great chapter on resin safety, but you can get the same information for free from Gougeon Brothers, makers of West Systems Epoxy, which is where he got it from. I guess it's a great book if it were the only one of its kind, but seriously there is no comparison between this book and Canoe Craft.
I will say one thing, if you want to cane your own seats, this would be a good book to buy because it contains an entire chapter dedicated to that. Taunton Press also sells an entire book dedicated to seat caning. Not sure of title, but I've seen it on book shelves.
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Title: Canoecraft: An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction by Ted Moores ISBN: 1552093425 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Stripper's Guide to Canoe-Building : With Drawings by David Hazen ISBN: 0917436008 Publisher: Tamal Vista Pubns List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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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: The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build by Nick Schade ISBN: 007057989X Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 31 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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