Yes … a simple wooden canoe plan that builds from three sheets of plywood in two weekends – light with large capacity and paddles fine – not bad when people mistake it for a classic canoe continuously!.
It can also convert to a sailing canoe with or without outrigger hulls.
QUICK CANOE 155 – A simple wooden canoe plan – Specifications
Length – 4.7m (15ft 6ins)
Beam – 0.83m (33ins)
Hull Weight – 23kg (45lbs)
Draft – 0.100m, (4″)
Three sheets of 6mm (1/4″) Plywood.
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Duct Tape or Cable Ties to put the hull together fast
Read how Rick built one in four and a half hours.
Temporary duct tape gives a clean interior for filleting or glassing.
The hull is duct taped together; the interior has no stitches or cable ties protruding making getting the glass or fillets down much easier and faster.
A Classic looking canoe – a simple plywood canoe plan
From a customer:
I built the QC (photo below) for this trip last year, and have used it extensively in lakes since that time. Definitely gets scuffed up with the rocky bottom of our local rivers, but things are better since I capped the keel with a strip of aluminum. .
I cannot pass a single other person on the river without great compliments about my “beautiful wooden canoe”!
Despite being so simple … it looks just right on the water as you can see from the photos.
See my page on choosing between the Quick Canoe and the Classic Eureka Canoe
Quick Build on Location for your Vacation – building two in France was cheaper than hiring canoes
The photo below shows two Quick Canoes a group of us built in France immediately before paddling and camping our way down the Loire River for a week.
It fills a gap that our classic Eureka Canoe doesn’t cover. The Eureka is a pretty wooden canoe that is easy to build and paddles very nicely. It builds quickly over a couple of weeks if you can work full time, but with the Quick Canoe we were thinking of a wooden canoe plan that was possible to whack together in a weekend or two.
| Eureka Left and Quick Canoe Right.
How to choose between our fast build Quick Canoes and our Classic Eureka Canoes. |  |
Originally called the “Disposable Canoe” it ended up being way better than that!
Original name was the “disposable” canoe. It has been renamed the more salubrious “Quick Canoe”. I quite liked the name of “Disposable Canoe” but I agreed with the critique that it hinted at something that was poor quality rather than simple and Easy.
| Our Drop in outriggers that fit almost any canoe are quite suitable for the Quick Canoes. They fit the Eureka too but with a flatter crossbeam curve. It is also the basis for a quick sailing rig. |  |
It could have been the EasyCanoe, but that name was already taken. We had trouble finding a name for a new wooden canoe plan :)
The Quick Canoe series was designed to be easy building as while keeping some of the qualities of a good paddling plywood canoe – in particular the ability to track. It is not designed to be the BEST canoe, but the SIMPLEST plywood canoe that was FASTEST to build without being too bad on the water. A point of difference with the best paddling canoe we could come up with as represented by the Eureka.
Several Canoes then you need a triple storage rack to build yourself
Video on how to build the Quick Canoe
Here is a six minute clip on the building method for this plywood canoe.
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The video method includes the standard paddling canoe and also the Quick Canoe Electric which is a cargo canoe designed to take an electric trolling motor.
Can sail with addition of a sailing rig. Or outriggers and a bigger sail for more performance
The Quick Canoes even work well with our Drop In Sailing Rig.
Or the drop in outriggers that convert it into a light trimaran.
