The Canoe Rotisserie
You can see from the accents stripes that Dave was a clever fellow. What you can't see from these pictures is that Dave built all these strip boat without using any staples. Those who have looked into the "strip built" technique know that the standard method is to staple the strips to the forms as you are glueing the strips together and then removing the staples before applying the fiberglass. It is the way that I have built every boat.
Not Dave though. I've found that if there was a more challenging way to do something then Dave was going to take the challenge. His wife said that he spent years perfecting a rotisserie for building a boat which allowed him to clamp the strips in place while the glue dried.
These pictures are of the building form on the rotisserie with his last boat still on the form and in several pieces. This will be the last boat that I tackle and I'll talk more about the rotisserie when I get to that boat.
For now I'm adding more coats of resin to the hull of boat #2 and then it will be sanding time.
