'crow, I looked at the web site and book referred to and it seems to be a lot more about double paddle canoes. Evidently you have the book. Does it cover conventional cedar strip, two person canoes? You know, about 17 foot canoes?

Vic

Sharp! if the sight I give you doesnt have a two person canos,here's another that I know does,cause I have the plans right here in my hands.Now follow me close, back in May 1990 Popular Mechanics magazine had an artical you might need. The plans I got were from Handyman P.O.B 9000 Maple Plain,Minnesota 55348 PLAN #101 "HOW TO BUILD A CEDAR STRIP CANOE". THIS LITTLE SWEETHEART IS 18" LONG/34 WIDE AND A FOOT DEEP, WEIGHS 61 LBS.tHEY ALSO HAVE A ADIRONDACK GUIDE BOAT PLAN.The plans are only 2 pages long and don't give the first timer much to go on, for that you might need the book.This set of plans tell you how to shorten if you want to, I would think you could streach it going the other way!I dont know it the plans are still available from them or not,if not the CONTACT I gave you might,you have the 800 number,give them a call,it's thier dime.Remember,"If you arn't the lead dog, the view never changes". Good health to all.

Sharps! just got off the phone with my co instructor,reminded me the other very best book we used in class is by Gil Gilpatrick he's on the internet under WWW.GIL GILPATRICK.COM pretty inventive huh?His book is "Building a Cedar Strip Canoe"$12.23 at Walmart/order from him on his web sight, go on his web sight and you can see him/his book. He's been a Master Guide for 28 years and paddles what he builds on his guide trips up the Allagash Wilderness Waterway at the Vocational School where he teaches here in Maine.You just got to admire a man who stands up and poles a canoe through rapids.This book has 8 plans for canoes and all the seats paddles ,gear you need to go paddling with. If you want to see the Allagash,click on Images,next to Web on your computer,where you put in the WWW stuff, type in Allagash Wilderness Waterway,there it will be.Try GULF HAGUS,now that's some trip,Very few men and no boys go there!"If it ain't broke,maybe you just ain't trying hard enough",Red Green

Well, it ain't cedar or bark but I finally got my canoe, a new 17' Buffalo. Fits, huh? Rummaged around in my basement and found a couple of antique (perhaps) paddles. They were given to us years ago by a widow whose husband had them for years. I could just faintly remember having them, and had no recollection of what they looked like.

Wisht y'uns could've gone with us after it. The Missus and I headed into the Bostons amidst the earliest green-up I can remember. The oaks are already turned dusty ochre and the elms are sparkling green --- you oughta just see the sarvice, redbuds, and dogwoods! I can never remember the sarvice and dogwoods blooming at the same time, before! Usually its only after the sarvice has lots its glory that the dogwoods resurrect. But they're beaming side by side, now, like snowbanks on the ridges. We wound through the mountains and crossed Little Buffalo into Jasper, to get our guide to the shop (we'd been told that directions to it were impossible to give and you had to have a guide. True!). From there we left town headed south and at last took up Spider Creek following a narrow valley which kept closing in. Waaaay back up in the head of that was the canoe shop. With the help of an old bay horse, named Lightnin' (who kept trying to untie my lanyards and rodes as fast as I could fasten 'em), we hoisted up our treasure and began the portage back out.

She's 38" at the beam amidships. Built for the lake and I'm told sits deeper in the water than normal to keep the wind from whipping her sideways so easily. Payload is 1700 lbs. Oughta haul out me and a good sized b'ar --- providin' the ba'r is dead! Elsewise, he kin git hisself out!

Anyhow, and old sailor is now an Ozark voyageur!

Fiddlesticks

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'Sticks,
Celebrating a new boat is ALWAYS in order.
Congratulations.
Sparks

Sticks:
Congrats! Does it have a portage yoke in the center? How heavy is it? You can carry any canoe if you have to, but lighter is always better when it's on your shoulders!

Dick

MR Sticks,

HUZZAAHHH ( i hope that means something like WHOO-HOOO)

Let's taker fer a ride!! and Maybe go after a wiskerfish er two.

Now you wouldn't mind paddleing you're old uncle buck around would you?

Heck I'd be happy just cruizen for chicks.
Them canoes are squaw magnets you know!

Uh-oh the misses just got home... don't say anything about cruizen for chicks in OUR new canoe.. she might not understand I was just funnin!

gotta go..
buck

No cruizin' fer chicks (hens and poults are illegal for spring season) for me. But we might can find your lost cache! Do you have any recollection of what river it was near?

Fiddlesticks

Good fer you 'sticks! Now ye can portage that thing up here to the Missouri Ozarks and we'll do a couple day float fer limb bacon! I kin teech you "reverse lead" when floatin' fer squirrels!

Vic

Sounds great, Sharps!

Reverse lead? Sounds like aiming at their tails as you float by! Haw! That's the way I shot at quail and ducks, no matter whichaway I or them were going (when I was a kid! Ain't shot at any since then.) Haw! Haw!

Fiddlesticks