I'm going to stretch 'weekend seven' over two posts as they are the last related to the building of our family canoe...which of course is bittersweet.... yes, the canoe is done, but we didn't want the process to end so soon. It went by fairly fast for us. It is quite amazing that such a lovely piece of functional art could be produced in a few weekends!
These images show that we were at the stage whereby we only had a few things left to install on the canoe.... here, we were installing the yolk and handles (i'm sure there's a more technical term, just can't remember) and we had to varnish the hand-caned seats...that varnish had to dry overnight and then we went back to install them the next day...
The car ride home both days of this weekend was somewhat sombre... mixed feelings of excited, proud and sombre I guess... thinking of follow-up projects for now and the spring! What to create?
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