Timeline Hiawatha 16

This is a detailed description of the Timeline of a Stitch-And-Glue canoe.

The total building time for the canoe Hiawatha HC16 by bateau.com was 40 hours, spread over a couple of months. After each glueing, laminating and fairing the epoxy has to cure for one or two days before continueing with the next step. So often a break is required after just one hour of work. It is not possible to build the boat within a week.

After 6.5 hours of work all hull panels were glued together and it already looked like a real boat. More than half of the time was spent on the surface finish like fairing, sanding and painting.

 

Timeline Stitch-And-Glue Canoe

1h: Measuring and marking

1h: Cutting plywood pieces

1h: Splicing hull panels

1h: Stitching lower panels and bottom panel

1.5h: Glueing lower panels and bottom panel

1h: Stitching and glueing upper panels

1h: Turning hull, removing cable ties, sanding chines

0.5h: Cutting fiberglass fabric outside

2h: Laminating hull outside

2h: Sanding and fairing hull outside 1st round

2h: Sanding and fairing hull outside 2nd round

1h: Sanding and fairing hull outside 3rd round

1h: Glueing rubrails

0.5h: Fairing chines inside

0.5h: Sanding and fairing rub rails

0.5h: Cutting fiberglass fabric inside

2h: Laminating hull inside

1h: Sanding and fairing hull inside 1st round

1h: Sanding and fairing hull inside 2nd round

1h: Preparing seat frames and yoke

1h: Installing seat frames, yoke and compartment frames

1h: Painting compartments inside and glueing compartment tops

1.5h: Sanding and fairing compartments, seat frames and yoke 1st round

1h: Sanding and fairing compartments, seat frames and yoke 2nd round

1h: Sanding and fairing rub rails

0.5h: Sanding hull outside

0.5h: Fairing rubrail    

1h: Priming outside

1h: Priming inside

1h: Sanding inside

2h: Painting inside

2h: Sanding outside

2h: Painting outside

1h: Installing seat belts

1h: Installing compartment lids and handles

 

40h: Total time

 

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