How Light Can A Eureka Be Built:
Words from Mike Storer,the boats designer,we have the plans and can supply those,with our without materials or a kit.
An email arrived from from a couple of serious canoe users with many years of experience. They were looking to build the lightest plywood canoe possible and had found the Eureka site on the net. They asked me whether I thought a 14 to 16kg finished boat would be possible.
I generally tend to be quite careful with weight questions because lightweighting a boat is a matter of putting every step of the building process under the microscope. Get lazy in one or two areas and it is very easy for extra material or heavier material than expected to creep into the building - resulting in the boat being much heavier than expected. The result is disappointment for the builders (and the designer)
Despite my cautious approach the customers decided to go ahead to build. It turned out that they had a background in lightweight model aircraft - great attention to detail through the whole project - this Eureka looks great and the weight is right on target.
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