Hi,

I'm an amateur woodworker and boatbuilder living in the UK. I've spent much of my life enjoying time in boats, mostly canoes or kayaks, but equal pleasure has come from building my own craft. Over recent years I have built about ten canoes of different sorts and have written a few blogs about their construction, such as the sailing canoe shown above: https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=668875#p668875

A surprisingly popular boat building story was the description of how to create a 'tortured ply' canoe: https://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=695158#p695158 and a video of this method has had over half a million views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkARrO_iEc

My YouTube channel also features a few of my many adventures in the boats I have built: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRzWXIDsn71s5W_Q06NzFA