# 1990 VHS • Ultralight Boatbuilding 60 FPS

Tom Hill, a Vermont boatbuilder who learned the glued plywood lapstrake technique from Carl Bausch about 20 years before this tape was made, walks through building a single-seat canoe from scratch in a program that compresses roughly 100 hours of real build time into two hours. No sophisticated woodworking tools are required; hundreds of first-time builders have completed boats using this method. The tape is organized in chapter format for easy rewinding. The build proceeds in order from drawing station molds and assembling the strong back with copper rivets through gluing up stems with epoxy, attaching and fairing rib bands, scarfing 4mm Brunzeel Okume plywood to 12-foot panels, hanging all six planks per side with gains cut at the stem, sheathing the garboard with fiberglass cloth, trimming laps flush with a router bearing bit, fitting brass half-oval stem bands with scutch pins, installing outwails and spacer blocks, lifting the hull off the jig with help from his wife Polly, fitting breast hooks with winding bevels, installing inwales, building a pivoting backrest thwart with copper pivot pins, fitting the floor and floor timbers, and painting and varnishing inside and out. The finished canoe weighs 27 pounds and tracks well due to its v-bottom shape.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1990
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-UltralightBoatbuilding1990)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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