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Dienstag, 28. Februar 2017
Hudson Museum 4 Bark Stuff
The Hudson Museum in Orono, Maine has a very nice Maine birchbark canoe from the nineteenth century, plus several related items.
ca. 1888 From the exhibit signage: "This nineteen-foot river canoe was made for Charles Strickland, a prominent Bangor businessman for river drives. Made from thinner summer bark, it was designed for speed."
The huge photograph mounted behind the canoe is misleading: the people are reproduced larger than life, making this big boat look smaller than it really is.
Bow
Stern
Micmac crooked knives -- the basic tool for building a birchbark canoe.
Fancy crooked knives. The four to the left are c. late 19th/early 20th century, but no cultural identification was provided. The one in the upper right is Naskapi, c. 1900.
Summer bark (left); winter bark (right)
More canoe materials. Top: spruce root used for sewing seams and panels together. Bottom: canoe ribs (probably white cedar); Center-right: pine rosin (dried sap), melted then heated for sealing seams.
From the exhibit signage: "Birchbark Box by Tomah Joseph. c. 1900. Each section of the box is decorated with motifs, including hunting scenes and images from Passamaquoddy legends, such as rabbit the magician and wildcat." I'm including it here and below for the canoe illustration.
The work of the Passamaquoddy Tomah Joseph, by the way, appears in Adney & Chapelle's Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
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Sonntag, 8. Januar 2017
Dont sweat the small stuff Bilge Pump Installation
Don't sweat the small stuff!
Well easier said than done when trying to figure out where to drill holes in the bottom of your new boat! Eventually, I got fed up procrastinating and drilled two holes for drain plugs, one either side of the centre board trunk. Sense prevailed before I decided against fitting two bilge pumps which would have required a further set of holes in the side of the hull for skin fittings, and so I finished up with one bilge pump which is plumbed to the starboard side of the hull discreetly underneath the sole and inside the seat locker, out of view.
Here you can also see where I installed the ships compass on top of the centreboard trunk cap. I elected to position it forward, so that other crew might be able to monitor it.
I need to figure out how to fix the pump itself - I don't really have more room for a mounting pad, and I am certainly not going to screw it to the hull, so I may look to find a way to clip the side of the pump to the trunk logs, which are very beefy timbers running on top of the keelson.
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| Bilge Pump exit through 3/4" bronze skin fitting |
Another shot of the Somes Sound, getting ever so close to launch:-
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