My father-in-law built a really nice cedar strip canoe. He lives in eastern Oregon and so I got to see it at a couple of stages of the build. This really got me interested in building a boat, something I never thought I would do. I looked online quite a bit and ran across skin on frame boats, and various iterations of this concept. These really intrigued me, and so I investigated this set-up. I was wanting something that was fairly small, and that I could fish from. I also wanted something that I could carry a passenger or two in and that would be somewhat stable. Car top capability was also a need as we don't really have space for a trailer.
Meanwhile, I was talking to my friend Paul. He is a carpenter and cabinet maker and has a great shop. Paul said he always wanted to build a cedar strip canoe. Before too long we had decided that we would each build a boat at his shop and help each other on the builds. This blog will be our record of this build. We may decide to build more boats once these are done, but these are for us.
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