Brazos River Boat

[Wild Ed]

I have never built a rifle other than from a commercial kit but I do want to learn how in the near future.  I thought you guys my like to see the second boat I built out of cedar strips.  It is a brazos river boat style which is a hybrid pirogue, kayak and canoe all rolled into one.  ET 

[old salt]

Sweet looking craft.

[crazell]

Nice!! How long did that take you to build? Beautiful job!

[Watauga]

Sweet looking craft.

I Second that
Did you take Pictures of the building Process?
They would be Cool to see!!

[Wild Ed]

Nice!! How long did that take you to build? Beautiful job!

About 3 months just working on it now and then. they would not take long if you had a shop and could leave it all set up.  I built it on saw horses under a tree in the yard and put it in the garage when I wasn't working on it.  If you had a big table to glue the strips on or a form set up it would go pretty fast. The slow part is waiting for the glue to dry after each step. You glue it up with carpenters glue and cover it with fiberglass. Also I did not have any plans and did it out of my head.  It would go much faster now.  You can also build them out of plywood and just have a few pieces to glue up. I could do that in a weekend. ET

[pilgrim]

     Very nice looking boat.  Too nice to put in the water.  What you did and the wood you used is what I would prefer over plywood.  Very Nice

[RBMJS]

Beautifull craft there Wild Ed.  If it wasn't so durn nice it would be neat to fish out of on Reelfoot Lake.

[battman1]

That is a beauty, great work.