Over the last few months I have been working with John Owen Woodworks to create a kit for my Quick Canoe 155 design. It is already a very comprehensive plan and having a kit can make it go together even easier.
This boat is designed to go together very quickly, with a serious effort you could build it in a weekend, but I expect most to take a couple or maybe three weekends to put it together including painting.
Quick Canoe Kits Available from J.O Woodworks USA
John has not only been a friend of mine for a decade and a professional woodworker for most of his life, but makes the kits for many of my boats plans.
He does the kit for the Quick Canoe – and it is his best selling boat kit.
USA Quick Canoe Kit Order and Information Page
on JO Woodworks Website
A novel Building Method That Works
We designed the boat to be assembled with duct tape temporarily while the inside seams are glued or glass taped. This makes it very easy to assemble.
You can visit his site to order on these two pages depending on if you have plans already (Prices Sept 2010 and can change without notice)
Quick Canoe 155 kit including plan book with detailed instructions – $435
Quick Canoe 155 kit without plans if you have them already – $375
Prices are ex shipping. You can pay through paypal using their own service or Mastercard or Visa.
Kit Contents for the USA Kit for the Storer Quick Canoe
The kit includes all the pine plywood cut accurately, all the timber trim with precut scarf joins where necessary, a simple jig for making sure the scarf joins are aligned correctly when glued and more.
Construction Options
There are a number of options for glue and resin.
The highest quality construction, most foolproof and longest lasting is gluing with epoxy resin. John can supply an epoxy glue, glass tape and wood flour package for $99 click this link.
Alternatively there is a lower cost alternative of using polyester resin with 2″ (50mm) wide glass tape and a woodworking glue such as PL Premium or 3M 5200 which are available at local hardware stores.
I have modified the plans and John has modified the kit contents so that everything works together effectively.
This section was written a long time ago – How I know John
I am pretty careful about who I work in with but I had good references from John from two sources.
John was introduced to me by Chuck at Duckworks, my USA agent. I had a look at his website and found he has been a maker of after market boat bits for a long time. Rudders, centreboards, tillers.
Also he produced after market foils for Performance Sailcraft the manufacturers of Laser Class sailboats for many years.
There have been several of the Quick Canoes build now and you can see some photosets from different builders of the Plywood Quick Canoe in different countries here.
Storer Boat Plans Quick Canoe Kits Worldwide
USA Quick Canoe Kit Order and Information Page
on JO Woodworks Website
