Canoe Guy BC: How to Replicate Pocketed Inwales for a Double Gunwale Canoe
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by Mike Elliott, Kettle River Canoes
email: artisan@canoeshop.ca
In the early days of wood-canvas canoe construction (late 1800’s until about 1906), builders (primarily in up-state New York and Maine) tried to emulate the birch bark canoes in the region. Like birch bark canoes, they constructed their hulls with cedar ribs and planks. They also emulated the look of the gunwales. The inwales and outwales of birch bark canoes are lashed together and the rib-tops are whi...