Now that I've finished my racing canoe, I'm shifting gears towards designing a takedown canoe/pirogue for hunting and fishing. This will be the perfect vessel for me for something like going to Granger. I can easily throw it in the back of my vehicle since it will have a small footprint, and will be easy to put together.
I'm at the preliminary stage, but I think I've figured out the lines so that all the sections will nest well inside each other. Once I start fine tuning it I'll run more final numbers. Right now it's just shy of 12' long, maximum width is around 32" and about 12" deep. At the 4" waterline it's displacing around 350 pounds. Nested the length will be 50" long, 32" wide, and 16" or less in the height.
Depending on how it's finished out, I'm estimating 35-50 pounds. That will depend on how rugged I want to make it.
Hopefully I can work on this with my son's this summer and we can probably earn them a boat building badge for scouts while we're at it.
Sorry if the pics don't come out very good.
Thoughts or comments on this type of boat?
I'm at the preliminary stage, but I think I've figured out the lines so that all the sections will nest well inside each other. Once I start fine tuning it I'll run more final numbers. Right now it's just shy of 12' long, maximum width is around 32" and about 12" deep. At the 4" waterline it's displacing around 350 pounds. Nested the length will be 50" long, 32" wide, and 16" or less in the height.
Depending on how it's finished out, I'm estimating 35-50 pounds. That will depend on how rugged I want to make it.
Hopefully I can work on this with my son's this summer and we can probably earn them a boat building badge for scouts while we're at it.
Sorry if the pics don't come out very good.
Thoughts or comments on this type of boat?
I'm wrapping up a 4 month project on Thursday and then catching a flight that afternoon. We'll catch up when I get back, but I'm not going fancy on the proto build of this boat. I'll use cheap thin plywood, etc. reinforced in the appropriate areas and then seal it really well. I want to keep the proto cost to a minimum. I plan to learn and look for any design changes that might be needed during the build. I'll probably skip any major fiberglassing this go round and just opt for a simple stitch and glue boat with only the seams taped. For a more permanent boat I'd glass everything below the waterline. 
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