Building a Birch bark canoe

[Skeeter]

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[Todd]

I just planted some birch trees last week, I will let you know my progress in about 20 years.

[Skeeter]

Those saplings may be big enough.

[jbdba01]

Cool boat, but all he needs is :

• a rudder from ebay,
  a mast from Craigslist,
  outriggers, spars from Home Depot,
  maststep, leeboards, thwarts from Lowes,
  blocks, shackles, gundeons from duckworks.com,
  a tiller from Ace,
  a sail from apsltd.com,

and he's ready to set sail.

There's old school, new school, and no school.

[ZeroSix]

All in 8 minutes.... This guy is a rockstar!

[Pirogue]

Wow

[CooKnFish]

He had me until I saw the power drill...

[shamus]

Nice etchings on the outside.

[1okbyme2]

Born too early.......

[sfurman]

Pretty cool, mine was a lot easier to make. It is really cool to watch people using old techniques and tools to make stuff. He does use modern tools though. I saw a video of a guy that moved to Alaska and went into the woods with a back pack containing some metal tool heads like and axe and a chisel. He then made handles for them and then proceeded to build a log cabin which he lived in until he was 80 something. He went in when he was 30 something. Sometimes I wish I could do that.

[jbdba01]

I saw a video of a guy that moved to Alaska and went into the woods with a back pack containing some metal tool heads like and axe and a chisel. He then made handles for them and then proceeded to build a log cabin which he lived in until he was 80 something. He went in when he was 30 something. Sometimes I wish I could do that.

I just want to live on a boat and live off "the land" (ala the below).

I think I would have to have Heywood, Cooknfish and some others from the forum come by frequently though. Otherwise I would go hungry.

Every time I go to Miami I think of this guy. I don't know his story, but maybe he has it all right, and I (we??) have it all wrong.

Shot taken at Dinner Key, Miami.

[pbr]

I saw a video of a guy that moved to Alaska and went into the woods with a back pack containing some metal tool heads like and axe and a chisel. He then made handles for them and then proceeded to build a log cabin which he lived in until he was 80 something. He went in when he was 30 something. Sometimes I wish I could do that.

I just want to live on a boat and live off "the land" (ala the below).

I think I would have to have Heywood, Cooknfish and some others from the forum come by frequently though. Otherwise I would go hungry.

Every time I go to Miami I think of this guy. I don't know his story, but maybe he has it all right, and I (we??) have it all wrong.

Shot taken at Dinner Key, Miami.

That was Dick Pronnecke, there are a couple of videos available that chronicle it.

[Norm]

what merit badge is that

[Shep]

Bet it sucks when you bang it around on an oyster bar though.

[Norm]

and...you don't want to park it too close to the fire either