Building the Canoe



I completed the planking on Saturday and pulled all the staples out on Sunday. Now it is time to fair the hull! On Tuesday Ambiana and I will take the bus to Home Depot to buy the needed supplies: a paint chisel, sandpaper- 80 grit, and maybe a spokeshave and some wood putty filler. I need to make the hull as smooth as possible for the fiberglassing. Once the hull is faired I will have to remove the stongback, with hull attached, from its legs and relocate her to the garage for the fiberglassing stage of construction.




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I've been fairing the hull with 2 putty knives, a Shurform and a 4-in-1 file all the while listeing to Nathaniel Philbrick's 2006 historical tome "Mayflower" about the Plymoth settlement and the interactions betweens English and Native. The rivers were the highways and this one out our door was a major highway back in those days. Ambiana and I walked a hilltop trail today that not only bears the mark of dirtbikes and ATVs but also the forgotten footsteps of the people who onced lived in profusion upon this land and also dependant upon it. The HUMAN/NATURE disconnect is a big part of why our culture is so at odds with the rest of the planet. We seek to dominate and conquer Nature rather than live in co-operation with Her; this extends to our relations with whomever we consider the "other" be it a spouse or a foreigner.

I am ordering the fiberglass cloth and resin in preparation for the MOVE out of the cellar and INTO the garage for the fiberglassin; am still trying to plan the logistics of that move.



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