Preparations for canoe building

Before I started with the actual process of building the wood strip canoe there were a few things that I needed to take care of:

1)go shopping for some wood (walnut, ash and mahogany, the cedar wood will be here in a few weeks)

2)make something for my wife and the kids, so that it should be easier to have them on my side (or at least not to oppose me to much). The kids were easy:) I just make them some wooden toys and tell them how nice it is going to be  when we will go on paddling trips together, and they were sold on the idea (well, my son is only 6 months old, but from the way that he bites into the toy paddle I made for him, I concluded that he likes the idea). I also made some LED wooden lamps for our hallway, and that of course didn't help with the wife (but she likes the lamps, and also the canoe, she just doesn't like the idea that I will be spending many hours in the basement workshop)

3) Buy 15mm plywood to cout the molds and make the strongback for the canoe