Forms Construction

The plans as received from Carrying Place Canoe and Boat Works contained a half breadth drawing of the hull forms.  In order to work from a full size template, I had a local duplicating shop produce a mirror image of the half breadth drawing.  Using spray adhesive, I mounted both halves onto 1/4" mdf.  The building tips from Carrying Place recommended tracing the drawings onto tracing paper.  I didn't like the tracing technique on the last canoe I built, so I decided to try something new.

A jigsaw was used to cut out the template.  I cut just outside of the lines for the center form, 0.

My 12" disc sander was used to sand the template to the line.

The template was traced onto 3/4" plywood.

The template has been traced and the centerline and waterlines have been drawn onto the plywood.  Since the canoe has a symmetrical shape, two identical forms are made for the fore and aft stations (only one middle section, 0, is needed).  I screwed an extra sheet of plywood underneath each form so that I could cut out the duplicate form at the same time.   The deck screws holding the two sheets of plywood together can be seen above.

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