That's some impressive s**t man, knocking up something like that off the top of your head. Thanks for sharing I really enjoyed watching. Be safe and be lucky.
I was impressed by how you attach the strikes to the stem by using some angled pieces of wood underneath them I have never seen anybody do that before but it makes sense. I thought the frame looked very good excellent work I subscribed. Looking forward to more videos.
i'm hardly a haberdasherer but i always thought calico was a pretty loose weave? please correct me if im wrong, ive just looked and as you say its my sorta price!
I confess I have not ever done it, maybe lots of tar. I have been planning and slowly building a Currach for years! m.th-cam.com/video/E1uTlZH2HJ8/w-d-xo.html
Mate your a top notch bloke aye I dont see why ya dont get more views aye nothing better to watch after a long day, in my eyes your just another bloke enjoying himself and havin a laugh and that's just what I need.
Yea that's the dream aye, oh and just a thought if ya use a VPN while uploading vids It might help cos youtube makes ur vids show up more in the country it was posted in, just a thought cos I think you have a real chance at making a living out of youtube.
For reals? Hang on, are you just trying to flog me Nord? I do have a lot of Brits subscribed, always chalked it up to them finding it easier to understand what I was saying
Nah boss look it up alot of people think that's why pewdiepie is so popular if you've heard of him cos he lived in USA, UK and Sweden and but In saying that I found that out in like 2015 so it could of changed since then, but I'd give it a look aye, and I'm from new Zealand aye and I can understand ya fine
What about that heat shrink plastic they use to wrap boats for winter storage? You can buy a piece from west marine 6mil 17'x31' for $45 - about 35 GBP. It's polyethylene as well but a single sheet could be tacked on the inside of the gunwales before heating to get it tight, so no seams. Be enough for two of those frames you've got, or something bigger ... hmmm, now you've got me thinking, I just might try that!
I made an aluminium skiff a long time ago with the method you have just described. Or similar. Made a skeleton boat on a jig frame then made hardboard templates off the skeleton. The hardboard templates then were transferred to the ally sheets. A good thing I could see with it was if I spaced the frames differently I could have made a shorter or longer boat with perhaps even an extra couple of frames which if the general lines of the original shape were followed it would be like a scaled up version. Every day is a school day. 👍🏻👍🏻 Going to try some juice extraction next week and brew it up. You are an inspiration to many mate
What juice are you extracting? I've just made some blackberry wine, I can send the kids out with a bucket and 30 min later they come back with blue faces and 5 liters of the things, bumper crop this year. We're you able to use your skeleton boat as an assembly jig? Like I say, I'm hoping I can float the skeleton of anything larger that I want to prototype like this.
Going to try squeezing a few swede turnips, make some swede cider, berries don’t grow round here, unless in greenhouses so I thought, try and make it out of something we can grow. We will see..... The skeleton I made was transverse frames, I then sawed a thin strip of wood like the ones you were using, being careful it had no knots, this was pinned at the chine to help with making the hardboard pattern. Of course it could of been light plywood and made the boat directly out of that. I guess another thing would be make the frames adjustable themselves so the angle of the bottom and the sides was able to be set from boat to boat, the number of frames could be altered and even then perhaps you only need to make one side of the boat like that, just make two bottom pieces and two side pieces off the jig frames. Frame the boat itself out after the hull is complete.
A couple years ago I made a one man canoe. It was (or I guess still is) made with a kind of a plywood one ribs design. No keel or connecting bits between the ribs. You could almost call it monocoque. It had an inner and an other hull. It has a slight v shaped arched bottom. It's heavy and was unstable as hell. Also, the inner hull was only water tight until I sat in it, and now its rotting from the inside out because of splash water... Maybe I get around building version 2 of it one day...
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I'm pretty sure the outer hull was and still is tight. The inner one had some pretty ugly seams, that I had a hard time closing. So I guess the flex from my weight opened them up at some spots. And then some splash water got in...
I think the large exhibition banners are PVC. Many of them are single use, if you have a local events company drop them a line. They are even fibre reinforced so that they support their own weight when hung from the roof of a venue. As long as you don't mind branding from the Association of Coloproctologists down the side of your canoe 😂
I saw a video a while ago of a Russian guy who built a frame and skinned it with clear pallet/shrink wrap, it was clear so you could see into the water😎😎😎
@@kreterakete avoko makes or something like that, he built a couple of canoes, tested them on Siberian lakes, you have to be pretty confident to test in Siberian lakes!
Nice idea man! Much better than just drinking beer and watching TV or something like that! 😜👍 But I guess it would help to kick out the seat and sit right on the floor, to lower the center of gravity.
"Like makin' a tent wif a bunch of bin bags" , you know i'v known a few birds like that, and it works out for the most part. Thats what life jackets are for!
Amazing to me that this just came as you went along. Your original put-in spot with all the lily pads and weeds.. it really did pose a real drowning danger? Thank you for the detailed view you gave us. Art in Michigan USA
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I can imagine 🤣🤣🤣 I am like that too, dressing like a classy hobo lol Back to the canoe, i made one too years ago, i used a tarp to cover the frame, it wasn't a permanent solution, i could take off the tarp and put it back on when i wanted. It worked well.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Ha ha the heavy duty plastic one from homebase:) a 4x3 m see through one, it was holding up well. The frame got broken, I made it from green wood, copiced hazel branches. Tied them together with paracord. It was similar size like urs, without the sitting platform.
I was pretty sure he used pallet wrap, that thin clear plastic wrap that is like a yard wide. That might be whippet a try if you can have a mate pluck a roll just before it's at end of life... or just ask some guy to buy it for $5 who seems like he is the manager of the site. You might also go with cloth and resin but if that is too normal for you maybe try experimenting with fabrics and things top put on it, grab a bunch of different kinds of rags and gp to all your friends houses and see what whatever deck sealer or water proofing things they have do to your rags. Another thought is to use spray foam to strengthen up that clown pocket plastic on the bottom. Another idea is pool covering material. Lightly used space blankets [mylar] or actually any mylar for that matter, I just thought that any that unfurl and can't be folded back up top be stopped again might be cheap or free. You can also use bike tire tubes if you get all the free ones form a local shop for free or in exchange for a quick shot out. If you use sort thin plastic GPU can use the rubber from the tubes to rubberize the edges that will touch the dock and a bunch on both ends. You might even use strips for extra support cris crossing the ribs with Xs. Maybe gp tip where contractors buy stuff from and ask for some samples of all the things they sell in big sheets, you could say GPU wasn't tip waterproof a new house or something like that but they might like the idea enough to help you out. Worst case scenario you could try to weld a whole town's worth of pieces of milk jug together into a legit canoe... or kayak offe a row boat really, cuz at that point you could really go anywhere from there! And what about using PVC pipes for the long struts of the big canoe if you make it skin on ribs. Maybe sew it together with para cord! That actually sounds like there perfect combination of stuff to put together. Start with PVC ribs on a form, paracord stitching top tie things together, use bike tire inner tubes to help get it to hold its shape and be stretchy where it needs to be and to cover vulnerable edges of these boat and protect it from bumping against things like the dock and finally the icing on the trash cake pallet wrap for a clear skin to tie it all together! The pvc is the most expensive stuff and if you look in the right places you can get good prices on that as well
Firstly... EXCELLENT, I love videos like this.... what would I do in your position, well, you’ve spend time and effort so you HAVE to solve the stability and then find a good looking covering. (Although the 'bin bags' look far better than you described them... ) Adding stability means changing the frame OR making some sort of quick release 'floats' that don’t interfere with your paddling. I’d go for the floats, with your creativeness you could come up with something. As for covering, my pedal boat is a slight vee with keel covered with 5mm plywood and then resined. It even works in the sea. Stable and watertight. Looking forward to result...... know Expert
Cheers, I'd like to try adding a couple of inches width each side at the chine, thinking if I pull the covering off it'll be easy enough to just stick another baton on top of what's there. The covering... Someone had the amazing idea of shower curtains, I've got two nice kitch curtains on their way to me! I like ply boats, your pedal boat is beautiful.
Thank you very much.... I did read the reply about the shower curtain and must admit the picture flashed through my imagination.... then I thought but would he go for it? INDEED he would... good man...... it’s why you have a good amount of subscribers, great bloke, entertaining videos and good ideas. Looking forward to the next installment already..... know Expert.
Sure,under the water weeds lurks upsticles that may sink your canoe in just a few moments, the skeletton in your canoe is great, cover it with enforced pvc tarp and you are good to go everywhere.Nice crafting.
That's an impressive build there even if it didn't quite work. I think it's tippy because it's too flat bottomed all the way up and you are sat too high for that. On the novelty coverings, I have to wonder how much model aircraft tissue and dope would cost.... On another note, I've just acquired a Meddings drill press. So heavy I couldn't even get it too move after I unbolted it from it's bench. Do you reckon it'd be worth a video? (Putting it back together that is).
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 You'd layer it though, rather than using a single sheet. It's water proof too once doped. That drill press.... I tried to move it, couldn't, realised it was bolted down so unbolted it and still couldn't move it. It weighs in at around 20 stone!
Ok, mines a bit later, similar specifications but probably not such a heavy construction. The floor standard MF2 version is only 200lbs, surprised a strapping lad like yourself can't just pop it on your shoulder!
I had been wondering about using the same wood, and enjoyed watching this. I wouldn't give up on that one, an outrigger would make it stable, or another one the same would obviously give you a nice little catamaran, good for fishing. As for a covering, I've been watching some vids about poor man's fibreglass, I would try a few layers of cotton (old sheets or dust sheets), and a half decent exterior paint.
a small keel would help it go in a straight line, to stop it bring tippy i think itd need something bigger like a dagger board or widening slightly at the waterline
That build was impressive as hell Jim. Obviously not your first rodeo. I have a fair idea how you felt paddling. It's not nice being in a tippy unpredictable watercraft. I had a sea kayak for a while but never trusted the thing and I went back to a sit on top. You need to get some croc's my man. I'm told all the most fashionable paddlers wear them 😁
As a sea fairing paddler you are of course obliged to wear the crocks but on inland waterways flip flops are considered apropriate atire, dont blame the player, blame the game.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I haven't yet, but I have plans soon to do that. I plan to make a kitchen table out of pallets, so I'll test them then, James.
hi my name is David I just got finished watching your video on building the membrane skin on frame canoe and you had asked it if anybody had an idea of something better to coat it with well I don't know if you ever paid attention to the old pioneer days but they used to do a cloth and whitewash to waterproof the roofs and stuff on their cabins while this day and age it's the same principle but you just use a oil-based paint that is at Water solvent you painted on to the to the inside of it and you painted on the outside of it and the paint seeps through the fibers and makes basically a cloth waterproof skin for the boat it's just an ideal for you thought you might like to try and see how it does if it does better than your plastic membrane that you tried good luck God bless you
Sweet mate. Like other folk here, I've wanted to do something like this for ages. I'll keep tuning in to see what wonder material you find to wrap it in.
I have questions. What have you got on your feet? How short is “incredibly short”? Have you thought about getting a roll of pallet wrap? There’s a couple of Russian channels that made canoes out of sticks and cling film
Flip flops mate, one of them has had a wee tweek with gaffa tape. Yes to the pallet wrap, although someone else has come up with an even better suggestion that I'll have to try first
I had a FolBoat, similar design, but it had one more chine on each side, making it 'slightly' wider. Felt like poor initial stability, but the further it listed, the 'wider' it was at the waterline and the stability increased and the final stability was fantastic! I could NOT capsize it, and we tried VERY hard. The skin was a thin Naugahyde with cloth-side out and actually wood glued to cloth side of heavier Naugahyde, vinyl out. VERY hard to pierce, VERY secure, VERY stable with 4 people aboard (~18' LOA and ~42" beam).
I dont know my friend, most modern mass produced canoes are flat bottomed and are pretty stable, this actualy has a slight v but it probably becomes flat in the water with the stretchy covering.
Hi for the time it took to build and the low cost it looks the part. But if like you say it's a little unstable then that's not so good. I know f#×k all about boats but could you use a cotton bed sheet and then paint over it with some wax and then varnish on top. Well good luck with it I'm sure you will come up with the correct solution soon have a couple of beers to get the old brain cells working. Take care till next time buddy. 👍👍👍.
@@ianschannel6947 id like to see that. cure time and cost is why most people use turps insted of lard or tallow and linseed oil in the wax which is what i used and why my jacket is still tacky 18 months later!
You can look up great small craft demotions online. I remember even width and depth with an exception of a keal. But I wanted to say I've made body parts for cars out of a felt blanket and fiberglass resin. With the right marine or maritime resin you could seal a cheep felt blanket and rip out there to your harts content. You'd have to test it's ability to stay water proof, sounds right up your alley, and I can't find another. Power nation did a felt front bumper on a ford ranger they built same thing. Good hunting, and have a good one and all that.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 a fleece blanket makes for a nice stretchy absorbent fabric to start with. Then yoi can cover it with some proper fiberglass matt
Two persons in a canoe is ok,they respond to each other's movements, three persons makes you feel you are sitting on a log and may fall in the water any time,very unpleasent feeling.
Yes, I've seen some good ones with glass weave inside the pvc, much like bouncy castle material but a bit lighter, it'd probably work quite nicely but it'll be fun to explore some of the cheaper options first I think.
That was a great project. Personally I don't like canoes because you have to lean over to one side and as you say they are 'tippy'. I prefer kayaks because you sit upright and control the tippyness with the hips which once you get used to it is a lot easier. To make the boat go straight you need to nail a bit of 2X1 on the bottom as a keel or have a fin on the back. That will stop the boat from 'waggling' about when you paddle. You might be interested in this guy who builds similar boats with a new material which can be welded with a hot air gun. th-cam.com/video/EUo9nUU3aUA/w-d-xo.html&feature=emb_logo . The material is much more expensive but he is using 2" thick material but you can get it much thinner. He also has a website which you can get to from his youtube video. It tells you where you can get the material from. This link (drive.google.com/open?id=1sbzGNogR1qrgz9VDwLRd7flDZyRsrtJJ) is an image of a camping kayak I put together. I sleep on the water in the kayak and I can get it on the train with all my camping gear. Personally I would go for stitch and glue because skin-on-frame boats are punctured very easily. There is nothing like messing about in homemade boats. All the best.
What about that heat shrink plastic they use to wrap boats for winter storage? You can buy a piece from west marine 6mil 17'x31' for $45 - about 35 GBP. It's polyethylene as well but a single sheet could be tacked on the inside of the gunwales before heating to get it tight, so no seams. Be enough for two of those frames you've got, or something bigger ... hmmm, now you've got me thinking, I just might try that!
That's some impressive s**t man, knocking up something like that off the top of your head. Thanks for sharing I really enjoyed watching. Be safe and be lucky.
Thanks mate, i'll try with the luck, no promises on the safety.
Yh impressive m8
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I was impressed by how you attach the strikes to the stem by using some angled pieces of wood underneath them I have never seen anybody do that before but it makes sense. I thought the frame looked very good excellent work I subscribed. Looking forward to more videos.
Very entertaining! Maybe a bit of cheap Calico and a pot of bitumin paint, in the vein of an Irish currach?
Cheers.
i'm hardly a haberdasherer but i always thought calico was a pretty loose weave? please correct me if im wrong, ive just looked and as you say its my sorta price!
I confess I have not ever done it, maybe lots of tar. I have been planning and slowly building a Currach for years!
m.th-cam.com/video/E1uTlZH2HJ8/w-d-xo.html
Mate your a top notch bloke aye I dont see why ya dont get more views aye nothing better to watch after a long day, in my eyes your just another bloke enjoying himself and havin a laugh and that's just what I need.
Also I just watched ur first 10 or so vids and it's just a 10 part series on why women live longer XD
I don't know mate, I'd love to just fuck about in my shed all day and not go to work, hopefully one day!
Yea that's the dream aye, oh and just a thought if ya use a VPN while uploading vids It might help cos youtube makes ur vids show up more in the country it was posted in, just a thought cos I think you have a real chance at making a living out of youtube.
For reals? Hang on, are you just trying to flog me Nord?
I do have a lot of Brits subscribed, always chalked it up to them finding it easier to understand what I was saying
Nah boss look it up alot of people think that's why pewdiepie is so popular if you've heard of him cos he lived in USA, UK and Sweden and but In saying that I found that out in like 2015 so it could of changed since then, but I'd give it a look aye, and I'm from new Zealand aye and I can understand ya fine
What about that heat shrink plastic they use to wrap boats for winter storage? You can buy a piece from west marine 6mil 17'x31' for $45 - about 35 GBP. It's polyethylene as well but a single sheet could be tacked on the inside of the gunwales before heating to get it tight, so no seams. Be enough for two of those frames you've got, or something bigger ... hmmm, now you've got me thinking, I just might try that!
I made an aluminium skiff a long time ago with the method you have just described. Or similar. Made a skeleton boat on a jig frame then made hardboard templates off the skeleton. The hardboard templates then were transferred to the ally sheets. A good thing I could see with it was if I spaced the frames differently I could have made a shorter or longer boat with perhaps even an extra couple of frames which if the general lines of the original shape were followed it would be like a scaled up version.
Every day is a school day. 👍🏻👍🏻
Going to try some juice extraction next week and brew it up. You are an inspiration to many mate
What juice are you extracting? I've just made some blackberry wine, I can send the kids out with a bucket and 30 min later they come back with blue faces and 5 liters of the things, bumper crop this year.
We're you able to use your skeleton boat as an assembly jig? Like I say, I'm hoping I can float the skeleton of anything larger that I want to prototype like this.
Going to try squeezing a few swede turnips, make some swede cider, berries don’t grow round here, unless in greenhouses so I thought, try and make it out of something we can grow. We will see.....
The skeleton I made was transverse frames, I then sawed a thin strip of wood like the ones you were using, being careful it had no knots, this was pinned at the chine to help with making the hardboard pattern. Of course it could of been light plywood and made the boat directly out of that.
I guess another thing would be make the frames adjustable themselves so the angle of the bottom and the sides was able to be set from boat to boat, the number of frames could be altered and even then perhaps you only need to make one side of the boat like that, just make two bottom pieces and two side pieces off the jig frames. Frame the boat itself out after the hull is complete.
A couple years ago I made a one man canoe. It was (or I guess still is) made with a kind of a plywood one ribs design. No keel or connecting bits between the ribs. You could almost call it monocoque. It had an inner and an other hull. It has a slight v shaped arched bottom. It's heavy and was unstable as hell. Also, the inner hull was only water tight until I sat in it, and now its rotting from the inside out because of splash water...
Maybe I get around building version 2 of it one day...
how was it sealed up at the seams?
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 about three tubes of caulk
oh and, base coat, 4-5 layers of paint and 4-5 layers of finish
@@TheHom3er very nice! I'm surprised any moisture managed to sneak past all that lot.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I'm pretty sure the outer hull was and still is tight. The inner one had some pretty ugly seams, that I had a hard time closing. So I guess the flex from my weight opened them up at some spots. And then some splash water got in...
I think the large exhibition banners are PVC. Many of them are single use, if you have a local events company drop them a line. They are even fibre reinforced so that they support their own weight when hung from the roof of a venue. As long as you don't mind branding from the Association of Coloproctologists down the side of your canoe 😂
top idea mate, I know the sorts of things you are on about, its like bouncy castle fabric.
I'll see whats available.
I saw a video a while ago of a Russian guy who built a frame and skinned it with clear pallet/shrink wrap, it was clear so you could see into the water😎😎😎
nice, that sounds like itd be in budget. was it actualy water tight?
Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle yeah it seemed to be, I’ll see if I can find the link 👍
Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle th-cam.com/video/9MFN2tXnd0Y/w-d-xo.html there you go mate
Benspeed's Channel he is a legend too. Amazing guy.
@@kreterakete avoko makes or something like that, he built a couple of canoes, tested them on Siberian lakes, you have to be pretty confident to test in Siberian lakes!
Nice idea man!
Much better than just drinking beer and watching TV or something like that! 😜👍
But I guess it would help to kick out the seat and sit right on the floor,
to lower the center of gravity.
"Like makin' a tent wif a bunch of bin bags" , you know i'v known a few birds like that, and it works out for the most part. Thats what life jackets are for!
yes indeed
Amazing to me that this just came as you went along. Your original put-in spot with all the lily pads and weeds.. it really did pose a real drowning danger? Thank you for the detailed view you gave us. Art in Michigan USA
Was on my own, it's a little bit of a danger
I love the canoe but i love the fact better that u fixed ur slippers with duct tape 🤣
Awesome craftsmanship, on both accounts 👍
I know right, some people cross the road to avoid talking to me, I know it's because I'm so fekin classy I make them nervous
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006
I can imagine 🤣🤣🤣
I am like that too, dressing like a classy hobo lol
Back to the canoe, i made one too years ago, i used a tarp to cover the frame, it wasn't a permanent solution, i could take off the tarp and put it back on when i wanted. It worked well.
Actual canvas tarp or a plastic one? Don't just tease me, I need the details mate
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006
Ha ha the heavy duty plastic one from homebase:) a 4x3 m see through one, it was holding up well. The frame got broken, I made it from green wood, copiced hazel branches. Tied them together with paracord. It was similar size like urs, without the sitting platform.
It's brilliant! Thank you for sharing the process.
James, did you ever see the Russian guy make the kayak using shrink wrap around sticks? It’s pretty amazing and light!
Yes, someone else has just mentioned him, I've had lots of excellent suggestions, I'll try a few
I was pretty sure he used pallet wrap, that thin clear plastic wrap that is like a yard wide. That might be whippet a try if you can have a mate pluck a roll just before it's at end of life... or just ask some guy to buy it for $5 who seems like he is the manager of the site.
You might also go with cloth and resin but if that is too normal for you maybe try experimenting with fabrics and things top put on it, grab a bunch of different kinds of rags and gp to all your friends houses and see what whatever deck sealer or water proofing things they have do to your rags.
Another thought is to use spray foam to strengthen up that clown pocket plastic on the bottom. Another idea is pool covering material. Lightly used space blankets [mylar] or actually any mylar for that matter, I just thought that any that unfurl and can't be folded back up top be stopped again might be cheap or free.
You can also use bike tire tubes if you get all the free ones form a local shop for free or in exchange for a quick shot out. If you use sort thin plastic GPU can use the rubber from the tubes to rubberize the edges that will touch the dock and a bunch on both ends. You might even use strips for extra support cris crossing the ribs with Xs. Maybe gp tip where contractors buy stuff from and ask for some samples of all the things they sell in big sheets, you could say GPU wasn't tip waterproof a new house or something like that but they might like the idea enough to help you out. Worst case scenario you could try to weld a whole town's worth of pieces of milk jug together into a legit canoe... or kayak offe a row boat really, cuz at that point you could really go anywhere from there! And what about using PVC pipes for the long struts of the big canoe if you make it skin on ribs. Maybe sew it together with para cord! That actually sounds like there perfect combination of stuff to put together. Start with PVC ribs on a form, paracord stitching top tie things together, use bike tire inner tubes to help get it to hold its shape and be stretchy where it needs to be and to cover vulnerable edges of these boat and protect it from bumping against things like the dock and finally the icing on the trash cake pallet wrap for a clear skin to tie it all together! The pvc is the most expensive stuff and if you look in the right places you can get good prices on that as well
@@evilcanofdrpepper this should be a comment. You have a hella lot of good information and amazing ideas
Firstly... EXCELLENT, I love videos like this.... what would I do in your position, well, you’ve spend time and effort so you HAVE to solve the stability and then find a good looking covering. (Although the 'bin bags' look far better than you described them... ) Adding stability means changing the frame OR making some sort of quick release 'floats' that don’t interfere with your paddling. I’d go for the floats, with your creativeness you could come up with something. As for covering, my pedal boat is a slight vee with keel covered with 5mm plywood and then resined. It even works in the sea. Stable and watertight. Looking forward to result...... know Expert
Cheers, I'd like to try adding a couple of inches width each side at the chine, thinking if I pull the covering off it'll be easy enough to just stick another baton on top of what's there.
The covering... Someone had the amazing idea of shower curtains, I've got two nice kitch curtains on their way to me!
I like ply boats, your pedal boat is beautiful.
Thank you very much.... I did read the reply about the shower curtain and must admit the picture flashed through my imagination.... then I thought but would he go for it? INDEED he would... good man...... it’s why you have a good amount of subscribers, great bloke, entertaining videos and good ideas. Looking forward to the next installment already..... know Expert.
Sure,under the water weeds lurks upsticles that may sink your canoe in just a few moments, the skeletton in your canoe is great, cover it with enforced pvc tarp and you are good to go everywhere.Nice crafting.
I say that's a mighty fine job for having no plans and costing very little. I know I couldn't do that!
Yeah you could, but in your alligator infested swamps I'd not go out in anything less than 30'.... That doesn't have depth chargers and a harpoon gun
That's an impressive build there even if it didn't quite work. I think it's tippy because it's too flat bottomed all the way up and you are sat too high for that.
On the novelty coverings, I have to wonder how much model aircraft tissue and dope would cost....
On another note, I've just acquired a Meddings drill press. So heavy I couldn't even get it too move after I unbolted it from it's bench. Do you reckon it'd be worth a video? (Putting it back together that is).
the aircraft tissue is pretty cheap, so is the nitrile dope, not at all sure itd be strong enough though.
always worth a vid on the old machinery!
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 You'd layer it though, rather than using a single sheet. It's water proof too once doped.
That drill press.... I tried to move it, couldn't, realised it was bolted down so unbolted it and still couldn't move it. It weighs in at around 20 stone!
I've got a meddings 5 speed floor standing drill and can move it myself, what model do you have? Sounds like a proper job!
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 It's a Meddings MB2. The pillar is a 2 7/8" diameter 3' long solid steel bar. It isn't the heaviest bit.
Ok, mines a bit later, similar specifications but probably not such a heavy construction.
The floor standard MF2 version is only 200lbs, surprised a strapping lad like yourself can't just pop it on your shoulder!
I had been wondering about using the same wood, and enjoyed watching this. I wouldn't give up on that one, an outrigger would make it stable, or another one the same would obviously give you a nice little catamaran, good for fishing.
As for a covering, I've been watching some vids about poor man's fibreglass, I would try a few layers of cotton (old sheets or dust sheets), and a half decent exterior paint.
Would a small keal help with stability?
a small keel would help it go in a straight line, to stop it bring tippy i think itd need something bigger like a dagger board or widening slightly at the waterline
That build was impressive as hell Jim. Obviously not your first rodeo. I have a fair idea how you felt paddling. It's not nice being in a tippy unpredictable watercraft. I had a sea kayak for a while but never trusted the thing and I went back to a sit on top. You need to get some croc's my man. I'm told all the most fashionable paddlers wear them 😁
As a sea fairing paddler you are of course obliged to wear the crocks but on inland waterways flip flops are considered apropriate atire, dont blame the player, blame the game.
James, I made a trip to the scrapyard, and got a nice handful of farrier's rasps for not much money.
Have you tried them on timber?
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I haven't yet, but I have plans soon to do that. I plan to make a kitchen table out of pallets, so I'll test them then, James.
Would PVC pond liner work? I think 4 by 5 meters sheet cost £12 a few years back
Yes, that's pretty much what I thought I was getting into with the damp proof membrane, but turned out it wasn't actually pvc.
Would a shower curtain or whatever yall across the pond call it work? If so thatd be funny to see some cutesy shower curtain clad canoe
I fekin love this idea, cutesy shower curtains I'll definitely try
Glad to be of assistance man lookin forward to seeing the video
You sir are a legend!... message me if you need a deck hand for the 6 person one in the future!
Legend, will do
hi my name is David I just got finished watching your video on building the membrane skin on frame canoe and you had asked it if anybody had an idea of something better to coat it with well I don't know if you ever paid attention to the old pioneer days but they used to do a cloth and whitewash to waterproof the roofs and stuff on their cabins while this day and age it's the same principle but you just use a oil-based paint that is at Water solvent you painted on to the to the inside of it and you painted on the outside of it and the paint seeps through the fibers and makes basically a cloth waterproof skin for the boat it's just an ideal for you thought you might like to try and see how it does if it does better than your plastic membrane that you tried good luck God bless you
Sweet mate. Like other folk here, I've wanted to do something like this for ages. I'll keep tuning in to see what wonder material you find to wrap it in.
I see that Rambo did his usual when the compressor started screaming...roflmao ... Shitebag!
ADD AN OUTRIGGER !!
he fookin hates copressed air, parafin gun or tyre inflator and he'll try and snatch it out of my hands.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 LOL...I still say add an outrigger to the canoe!
@@samc705 is that the piece to go underneath the boat?
Sam C yes, yes. Outrigger will do the trick
@@kreterakete knew it was called summat. I thought sturn or bow lol
Great project Mate 👍 👍 😁
Cheers sparkles
I have questions. What have you got on your feet? How short is “incredibly short”? Have you thought about getting a roll of pallet wrap? There’s a couple of Russian channels that made canoes out of sticks and cling film
Flip flops mate, one of them has had a wee tweek with gaffa tape.
Yes to the pallet wrap, although someone else has come up with an even better suggestion that I'll have to try first
I had a FolBoat, similar design, but it had one more chine on each side, making it 'slightly' wider. Felt like poor initial stability, but the further it listed, the 'wider' it was at the waterline and the stability increased and the final stability was fantastic! I could NOT capsize it, and we tried VERY hard. The skin was a thin Naugahyde with cloth-side out and actually wood glued to cloth side of heavier Naugahyde, vinyl out. VERY hard to pierce, VERY secure, VERY stable with 4 people aboard (~18' LOA and ~42" beam).
Ciao... Complimenti. Hai un progetto con le misure da condividere? Che tipo di tessuto di plastica hai usato? PP, PE o PVC? Grazie. Filippo
"Let's go for a drive and throw this in the river." I hear ya, brother.
Cheers mate
Happy to chip in for a the big build. Also can chip in a paddling arm if needed :-)
it's unstable because of the flat bottom
I dont know my friend, most modern mass produced canoes are flat bottomed and are pretty stable, this actualy has a slight v but it probably becomes flat in the water with the stretchy covering.
Cover it in clingfilm. Tin foil. What about leather great job well done mate can’t wait to see what you come up with.👍🇬🇧🍺🤘
Tin foil is an excellent idea, I'll look like a b-29 bomber flying down the river, and I'll be able to hide from 5G inside it.
Why don't you go the full hog, a 57' 🤔 canoe. Or, would that be classed as a narrow boat?
👍😎🔥 MDS
Nice. i'd need to get it on top of my truck though
Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle That equation I failed to incorporate 😂
👍😎👍 MDS
Hi for the time it took to build and the low cost it looks the part. But if like you say it's a little unstable then that's not so good. I know f#×k all about boats but could you use a cotton bed sheet and then paint over it with some wax and then varnish on top. Well good luck with it I'm sure you will come up with the correct solution soon have a couple of beers to get the old brain cells working. Take care till next time buddy. 👍👍👍.
Be proud you are the first person to say bedsheets!
Thanks mate, take it easy
Too high in the water. Would be fine for two people?
Rekon it'd be worse unless the second person was just laying on the floor
Looks great but was more coracle than canoe on the water, maybe go full Hawaiian and throw an outrigger on it?
No to the outriggers! I'll try and widen it a bit
Duct tape on the sandals. Like a Bloody legend!!!!!
have you thought about waxed oil cloth
I had a look but, canvas costs mega bucks and if i was going to use canvas id dope and paint rather than wax
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 i made a pair of oil cloth trouser the other week ill post a vid once its cured. its taking forever.
@@ianschannel6947 id like to see that. cure time and cost is why most people use turps insted of lard or tallow and linseed oil in the wax which is what i used and why my jacket is still tacky 18 months later!
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 i used 2 parts microcrystalline wax (£10 per kg), 1 part boiled linseed oil and 1 part white spirits.
You can look up great small craft demotions online. I remember even width and depth with an exception of a keal. But I wanted to say I've made body parts for cars out of a felt blanket and fiberglass resin. With the right marine or maritime resin you could seal a cheep felt blanket and rip out there to your harts content. You'd have to test it's ability to stay water proof, sounds right up your alley, and I can't find another. Power nation did a felt front bumper on a ford ranger they built same thing. Good hunting, and have a good one and all that.
Turbo maybe try an offcut of cushion floor/Lino ? Can even get with a wood print on :)
Nice idea
Wow! That's a $1000 frame with 10 cent skin!
How about (many layers of) cling film to cover it?
Put an outrigger on it to see if that helps with stability? Could just be 4" PVC pipe.
I'll try and change the hull profile first, outrigger feels like defeat!
I saw the notification, so I dropped what I was doing and came a runnin
cheers vin
Pond Liner and a Tub of Evostick 🤣
That would be alright with outriggers,Turbo.How about putting 50HP Johnson or Mercury on a old tin bath lmao
Always Mariner, anything else is second best
What's the weight your boat man?
i would use a truck tent or the inflatable boat material
Any thoughts of fiberglass skin?
I've used it on the seams of all my ply boats, would consider wrapping a wooden boat with it.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 a fleece blanket makes for a nice stretchy absorbent fabric to start with. Then yoi can cover it with some proper fiberglass matt
Dacron is the way to go, or aramid if you like.
Before you give up try sitting on the floor and use a double paddle and a small skeg at the stern
beautiful frame shame about the skin, but some other material might turn up. i saw one guy use cling film and it was great. winners never quit 👍
Looks a bit top heavy. Should of had the seat lower to lower the gravity height. Other then that it’s not bad.
I'll subscribe to every channel called Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle.
Do the 20ft canoe!
Yes sir! Might not be for a year but I'll do it.
Maybe for your next project, you can fill this canoe with water and detergent and soak in it for a while
Pretty funny
rather waterprof flax cloth with car ceramic coating and you have flexible sof without plastic crap
There's always Tyvek - not cheap though.
Google says it's also polyethylene, so I'll have much the same problems as with this stuff
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 ah- I know it from UL camping. I have a bivi bag made from it.
one word ballast
i dont want to loose my lead collection though, if the economy goes tits i can use it for barter
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 It wouldn't go anywhere though. Could always take it back out, unless it sinks it guess.
@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 another one word... bricks 😆
Not bad but I think you should use stronger wood
Two persons in a canoe is ok,they respond to each other's movements, three persons makes you feel you are sitting on a log and may fall in the water any time,very unpleasent feeling.
how about a proper pvc tarp. £30 will get you enough för covering a 20 foot canoe
Yes, I've seen some good ones with glass weave inside the pvc, much like bouncy castle material but a bit lighter, it'd probably work quite nicely but it'll be fun to explore some of the cheaper options first I think.
Can you build a 20 ft canoe
You can add troller motors on canoes
That was a great project. Personally I don't like canoes because you have to lean over to one side and as you say they are 'tippy'. I prefer kayaks because you sit upright and control the tippyness with the hips which once you get used to it is a lot easier. To make the boat go straight you need to nail a bit of 2X1 on the bottom as a keel or have a fin on the back. That will stop the boat from 'waggling' about when you paddle. You might be interested in this guy who builds similar boats with a new material which can be welded with a hot air gun.
th-cam.com/video/EUo9nUU3aUA/w-d-xo.html&feature=emb_logo . The material is much more expensive but he is using 2" thick material but you can get it much thinner. He also has a website which you can get to from his youtube video. It tells you where you can get the material from. This link (drive.google.com/open?id=1sbzGNogR1qrgz9VDwLRd7flDZyRsrtJJ) is an image of a camping kayak I put together. I sleep on the water in the kayak and I can get it on the train with all my camping gear. Personally I would go for stitch and glue because skin-on-frame boats are punctured very easily. There is nothing like messing about in homemade boats. All the best.
TIN FOIL!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
why do you look in the veiuer
Spend less on the canoe and buy yourself some new flip-flops dude pmsl! 😂
What about that heat shrink plastic they use to wrap boats for winter storage? You can buy a piece from west marine 6mil 17'x31' for $45 - about 35 GBP. It's polyethylene as well but a single sheet could be tacked on the inside of the gunwales before heating to get it tight, so no seams. Be enough for two of those frames you've got, or something bigger ... hmmm, now you've got me thinking, I just might try that!
heat shrink aye? i think i know the stuff, boat gets the wrap then its hit with a roofers torch, i'll investigate thanks.