Introducing: The "66" skin-on-frame Canoe Building System
Greetings and welcome to 'The 66' skin-on-frame canoe. Originally envisioned as a lightweight double-paddle pack canoe, the 66 evolved into a complete canoe building system that gives you the freedom to change the width, the depth, the rocker, the sheer, and the hull shaping with easy to follow instructions, predictable results, and without making time consuming canoe molds.
In addition to the fast, easy building system, the 66 features a 'balanced tension’ design that doesn’t require permanent thwarts, allowing you to dynamically trim the boat while paddling, steer the boat with weight-shift under sail, lay down in the canoe, and build canoes that nest together like Russian dolls! An integrated system of floorboards that double as outriggers allowing two canoes to be rapidly catamaran-ed together into a stable, paddle-able platform.
A safe, simple, downwind/crosswind sail built into the design lets you take advantage of favorable breezes and still have a clean, uncluttered canoe.
Interested in what goes into a Cape Falcon Design? If you go to my YouTube Channel there is a 14 part series documenting the entire process of designing the canoes. Below are just a few of my favorites:
In addition to the fast, easy building system, the 66 features a 'balanced tension’ design that doesn’t require permanent thwarts, allowing you to dynamically trim the boat while paddling, steer the boat with weight-shift under sail, lay down in the canoe, and build canoes that nest together like Russian dolls! An integrated system of floorboards that double as outriggers allowing two canoes to be rapidly catamaran-ed together into a stable, paddle-able platform.
A safe, simple, downwind/crosswind sail built into the design lets you take advantage of favorable breezes and still have a clean, uncluttered canoe.
Interested in what goes into a Cape Falcon Design? If you go to my YouTube Channel there is a 14 part series documenting the entire process of designing the canoes. Below are just a few of my favorites: