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     One of the things that Ted Hall asked me to do when I first got my ShopBot was to build a small canoe for his mother-in-law to use on their annual family trip to Michigan. I not only wanted to build her a boat that would be light, paddle easily, and be pretty, but would also:


1. be easy to build using the precision of CNC cutting, and
   
   
2. be difficult to do any other way.




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    After a couple of false starts, this new QuickLap method of building lapstrake boats had produced "Honey's canoe". Now the ShopBot cutting files and full instructions for the 13' version, which took second place in the 1998 Mid Atlantic Small Craft Festival, are available for viewing or download on ShopBot's web site, www.shopbottools.com



    The cutting files and instructions are free to download with one restriction. You can build one boat for your own use (or to give away) at no charge; I would love to see a bunch of them built, so please give it a try. If you want to build additional boats, build boats for sale, or sell kits, there's a $40 fee for each boat that you cut. Contact me for more information at:

Bill Young
Seaside Small Craft
Box 95
Willis Wharf, VA. 23486
757-442-5592
seaside@esva.net