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OKOUME PLY PADDLESHELL
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L-11'9" W- 34" Weight 40 Height 6"
Built with Zip & Glue Okoume Ply design.
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Kameko
Paddleshell's latest launching was commissioned to reflect nature's cycle. The cycle of Cascading water winding through mountain conifers into the Salish Sea and where cool marine air blows against steep jagged coastal peeks churning the river water into the awaiting lakes and tidal estuaries. Evergreens then drink from the foggy mist to nourish and top off the watershed. These sentinels line island headlands where, every so-often, they loose their foot hold and tumble into the sea. One of these trees became Kameko.
With her shape emanating from the existing profile of that wooden soldier, Kameko is round in the counter, with a tumble home bow. She even has book-matched side rails. The carved stem piece makes it a one-of-a-kind.
In addition, the SUP is also outfitted with a cedar seat for sit on top paddling and holders for the fishing pole, paddle and pop.
Circle with ease.
She came on the Supermoon tides of March. Hidden within the weathered remains of a cedar tree, not large or long, was to be her body plan. As it is with these vagabond drifting ghosts, what appears on the beach one evening can be long gone by morn. Ah, but Willa, a Labrador with a love for logs, helped to make it easy work to drag this drifter into the shed at the toe of the bluff. Our resident eagle watched from a high old tree.
After a split, hew, and quarter, followed by a pile of cedar curly cues, her shape was revealed in the run of the grain. She would be the smallest of craft. Without the need for a pencil mark, the band saw followed the grain in the wood. Such as much for the sheer line. Grown into this drift log's root wad was a fair shape that flared out to form the bow. For the bottom deck, fall off was used to mill tight quarter sawn planks. It was tied all together, by golly, with the tail end of the side rails fit into a locking dovetail joint on the transom plank. Sprung around the shaped bottom planks, the side rails were then fixed to a rabbeted beak head crook. Our eagle watched with raised brow.
As the supermoon log slipped into the water in her new incarnation, she showed shallow draft and low free board. With her displacement at 50 lbs and reserve buoyancy a bit more, a question remained - where was the loaded waterline? One way to find out was to hop on board. Upon our retrieving a full crab pot, the vessel’s flat bottom provided enough stability to land the heavy load. Eagle and Willa appeared quite pleased with the catch of the day.
