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Customers' Pirogue/Skiff Photos
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Henry,
The entire family has had a fun time with the pirogue on the bird
sanctuary marsh near our home. We made several modifications to the plan.
We widened the pirogue to 30 inches on the bottom. Since we did 5 ribs we
had to make adjustments to the distribution of the ribs and the angles.
I thank you
for quick answering of all the emails while I was building the pirogue.
For me that clearly demonstrated your commitment to your product. More
importantly thank you for a wonderful boat. We get a lot of compliments on
the boat. My wife has told me to build another, so the entire family can
go out at the same time.
Sincerely,
Butch Perry
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James Island, SC |
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This is my first boat so I
wanted to start with an easy one. It is a very simple design, I would
recommend it to anyone. I have pretty much gone with the plans on the
design. I added some seat rails that will hold two woven seats when the boat
is finished. I epoxied the whole thing and glass clothed the outside as well
as taped the seams. the last pic has bricks wrapped with duct tape, I think
there are 50 of them in all. They are holding down the floor boards I
glassed in until the epoxy sets up. The Pirogue is about ready for paint
now, I will send more pics when it is complete.
Dustin Rockrohr |
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Well Harry, I said I would send
you some more pics when I was finished so here they are. I put foam
floatation in both ends of the boat, Then boxed them in with some plywood
and cabosil epoxy putty. I painted the whole boat with Valspar exterior
latex paint, we will see how it holds up over time. This boat is in for a
rough life so I'd say it will be a good test for the latex argument. I
floated it on March 6th it was really windy as you can see from my 2 dogs
ears. The first time I put in it was a little shaky and the wind pushed me
straight into the bank. I got the hang of it pretty quick and was off and
paddling around the pond in no time, soon my cousin had to give it a shot so
we both went for a spin. It was a little bit of an overload but the pirogue
handled surprisingly well. we only had about 4 inches from the water to the
gunwales so we couldn't tip it too much. By the end of the day I even took
one of my dogs for a spin, that was interesting. So much for the woven seats
I had to improvise on the treated 5 quarter board seats just to get
something to sit on. They sat so high in the hull I didn't think they would
work. After a couple of trips around though they are just fine, it takes a
little better balance but is much more comfortable. I think I will call mine Floater, was a
great project thanks for such good plans and a very helpful webpage.
Dustin
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Hi Henry –
A while back I told you I would send you some pictures of my new Gator
Pirogue. Well, I finally found some time to put it in the water and test it
out. Everything went great and we had a lot of fun. My son and I learned
quickly how to handle a little boat like this. This was a test run so we
didn’t stay out long but we did find a creek that we would like to explore
later which is exactly the kind of thing this boat will be good for.
Thanks for the great plans and, as usual, your assistance.
Dennis McGinnis
NOTE: Dennis has also built our Duckhunter model -Henry |
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