Hi Sonshine,
That's a really nice looking canoe. Before I became a software developer I was actually a boatbuilder, it's what I trained in after school aside from the fact I'd been building and working on my own boats for years. I was particularly interested in traditional wooden boatbuilding, and wood/epoxy, and worked in that for a bit but I ended up working on "high tech" composite performance yachts. I haven't built a canoe as such, but I have built a strip cedar plug for a composite kayak mould. Basically similar to your canoe except I didn't have to clean up the inside and the outside ended up covered in bog and high build primer, so not quite to the same standard of finish :-). I had to leave the boatbuilding industry due to health problems, which has also prevented me from finishing building my two racing dinghies.
I've actually bought a couple of sit-on-top kayaks recently. They're just plastic ones, but that's the most practical for my needs. I've already hit one rock in a river so hard broadsides I would have holed a wooden one :-). I also have some pictures from the launching day, but it isn't quite the same feeling when it's not something you built :-). I've attached one of the shots, one of the few extant pictures of me on the internet ;-).
Happy paddling :-).
Regards,
Jo
