Our main goals for winter break were construction oriented. Our first task was designing and building a table to build our form on.

Next, we created our mold’s cross sections in AutoCAD and printed them out full-scale in order to cut each plywood cross-section using a bandsaw. Each cross-section was then centered on our table using a laser level in one foot increments.

In order to create the actual canoe hull, one inch strips of lauan were placed along the cross-sections and attached using a nail gun. To cap the ends of the canoe, Styrofoam blocks were formed into the appropriate shapes and connected to the endmost cross-sections.