"Knot Again" -- Page 4

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The seat was built a bit out of sequence with the website because I wanted to know exactly where the seat hanger bolts would need to be before the scuppers were cut in the inwales. A seat frame and paddle blank were glued up per Gilpatrick's book, "Building a Strip Canoe". The seat frame is from yellow cedar and the paddle is glued up from ash, western red cedar, yellow cedar, and a bit of paduk on the handle.

As with everything else on this boat, the seat frame was sealed with two coats of epoxy after the holes for the plastic cane were drilled. I used Gilpatrick's instructions for the seat caning which was a fun, first time project for me.

Once the seat was caned, it was set aside until the gunwales were completed before drilling the hanger bolt locations.

Once the gunwales were installed, the seats, thwarts, and gunwales were drilled for the bronze hardware. As is my habit, holes were drilled oversize, filled with black epoxy, and then redrilled to the proper size to seal the wood grain at the hole. Standoffs for the seat were turned from yellow cedar with a brass tube insert in the same manner that wooden ballpoint pens are constructed. The bronze 3/16" x 4" carriage bolts were ordered from North Bay Canoe. The notches in the inwale forward of the seat are for a removable yoke that will be fabricated "soon" (as in before I head to British Columbia in July).