Growing up in a small town on the river bank, two things were guaranteed. Love towards water and love towards nature. My earliest memories include those of my father building traditional fishing wooden boats. I always loved that. The very process in which formless wood transformed into an object that would give me so much fun and joy during summers. However, as the years past by, there were fewer and fewer wooden boats. Their place was taken over by polyester boats which were relatively cheap, extremely easy to maintain and pretty durable. This only underlines the fact that there are not many with enough time and knowledge to maintain a wooden boat.

I wanted to build my own canoe for a very long time and I was thinking how to get the best out of those two worlds. I wanted my boat to have a wooden soul, but at the same time to be durable and easy to maintain. In magazines I discovered the method for constructing canoes by gluing wooden planks which are in the end protected by layers of fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin. Perfect combination! Of course, only if it’s done right.

Growing up in a small town on the river bank, two things were guaranteed. Love towards water and love towards nature. My earliest memories include those of my father building traditional fishing wooden boats. I always loved that. The very process in which formless wood transformed into an object that would give me so much fun and joy during summers. However, as the years past by, there were fewer and fewer wooden boats. Their place was taken over by polyester boats which were relatively cheap, extremely easy to maintain and pretty durable. This only underlines the fact that there are not many with enough time and knowledge to maintain a wooden boat.

I wanted to build my own canoe for a very long time and I was thinking how to get the best out of those two worlds. I wanted my boat to have a wooden soul, but at the same time to be durable and easy to maintain. In magazines I discovered the method for constructing canoes by gluing wooden planks which are in the end protected by layers of fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin. Perfect combination! Of course, only if it’s done right.

Growing up in a small town on the river bank, two things were guaranteed. Love towards water and love towards nature. My earliest memories include those of my father building traditional fishing wooden boats. I always loved that. The very process in which formless wood transformed into an object that would give me so much fun and joy during summers. However, as the years past by, there were fewer and fewer wooden boats. Their place was taken over by polyester boats which were relatively cheap, extremely easy to maintain and pretty durable. This only underlines the fact that there are not many with enough time and knowledge to maintain a wooden boat.

I wanted to build my own canoe for a very long time and I was thinking how to get the best out of those two worlds. I wanted my boat to have a wooden soul, but at the same time to be durable and easy to maintain. In magazines I discovered the method for constructing canoes by gluing wooden planks which are in the end protected by layers of fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin. Perfect combination! Of course, only if it’s done right.

Growing up in a small town on the river bank, two things were guaranteed. Love towards water and love towards nature. My earliest memories include those of my father building traditional fishing wooden boats. I always loved that. The very process in which formless wood transformed into an object that would give me so much fun and joy during summers. However, as the years past by, there were fewer and fewer wooden boats. Their place was taken over by polyester boats which were relatively cheap, extremely easy to maintain and pretty durable. This only underlines the fact that there are not many with enough time and knowledge to maintain a wooden boat.

I wanted to build my own canoe for a very long time and I was thinking how to get the best out of those two worlds. I wanted my boat to have a wooden soul, but at the same time to be durable and easy to maintain. In magazines I discovered the method for constructing canoes by gluing wooden planks which are in the end protected by layers of fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin. Perfect combination! Of course, only if it’s done right.