MMF Family Boat Building 2009

2009 - Six-Hour Canoe

The 5th Annual Family Boat Building event was held Sat., Sept. 12, 2009, at the Foundation's Museum on Main St. in Mathews Courthouse. Family and friends were invited to build a boat together in a weekend, and then take it home. The event was open to anyone with the desire to build a boat with the help of a professional boat builder. Finished product shown here is available for purchase. See our boat donor page.

The boat chosen for this year's event was the Six-Hour Canoe. The canoe is the brainchild of Mike O'Brien, editor of "Boat Design Quarterly," from the publishers of Wooden Boat magazine. She is suitable as a personal boat. She is 15'3" in length with a beam of 31 1/2", and is constructed of 6mm marine grade occume 1088 plywood. She is light and easy to carry and handle, and was an ideal boat for an introduction to boat building.

The Six-Hour Canoe was in kit form with all pieces and parts pre-cut and ready for assembly. The kit was priced at $375.

Designer Mike O'Brien has this to say about his canoe: "Nothing, absolutely nothing, conveys the joy of being afloat so purely as a light paddling boat."

The photographs above, from the book Building the Six-Hour Canoe, are used by permission of Tiller Publishing.

Home About Us History Boat Donor Program Family Boat Building Calendar of Events Newsletter Contact Us Join Us	2009 - Six-Hour Canoe The 5th Annual Family Boat Building event was held Sat., Sept. 12, 2009, at the Foundation's Museum on Main St. in Mathews Courthouse. Family and friends were invited to build a boat together in a weekend, and then take it home. The event was open to anyone with the desire to build a boat with the help of a professional boat builder. Finished product shown here is available for purchase. See our boat donor page. The boat chosen for this year's event was the Six-Hour Canoe. The canoe is the brainchild of Mike O'Brien, editor of "Boat Design Quarterly," from the publishers of Wooden Boat magazine. She is suitable as a personal boat. She is 15'3" in length with a beam of 31 1/2", and is constructed of 6mm marine grade occume 1088 plywood. She is light and easy to carry and handle, and was an ideal boat for an introduction to boat building. The Six-Hour Canoe was in kit form with all pieces and parts pre-cut and ready for assembly. The kit was priced at $375. Designer Mike O'Brien has this to say about his canoe: "Nothing, absolutely nothing, conveys the joy of being afloat so purely as a light paddling boat." The photographs above, from the book Building the Six-Hour Canoe, are used by permission of Tiller Publishing.		< 2009 - Six-Hour Canoe 2008 - Nymph Sailboat 2007 - Peace Canoe 2006 - Bevins Skiff 2005 - Bevins Skiff The first annual family boat building event is held in 2005, crafting the Bevins skiff.