Peterborough Canadien 16

Product Description

The Peterborough Canadien 16 is a classic canoe for general-purpose paddling and light touring. It is responsive and easy to paddle, with a narrow beam, shallow-arch hull, external keel and slight rocker.

The Canadien is based on the time-honoured design of the earliest cedar-strip canoes to emerge from the Peterborough Canoe Company in Ontario. A Peterborough canoe often referred to any open canoe, but this design comes from the company that made the town's name famous around the world. In addition to its historical appeal, the Peterborough Canadien is no slouch in terms of performance. This version is part of the Bear Mountain Boats range.

Ted Moores of Bear Mountain Boats is the author of Canoecraft, the standard reference book for wood-strip canoe building. The book is recommended to accompany the kit or plans. It is packed with tips and techniques and has inspired countless first-time canoe builders around the world.

Length

4.88 m (16′)

Maximum beam

800 mm (31½″)

Beam waterline

770 mm (30.3″)

Beam gunwale

760 mm (30″)

Bow height

560 mm (22″)

Centre depth

320 mm (12½″)

Displacement

159 kg (350 lb)

Optimum capacity

127-177 kg (280-390 lb)

Draught

102 mm (4″)

Wetted surface

2.34 m² (25.2 sq ft)

Weight to immerse

94 lb/in

Prismatic coefficient

0.525

Weight

20-25 kg (45-55 lb)

Watch us build a Bear Mountain canoe in this one-minute overview video:

Kit

We manufacture our kits to the highest standard using European-grown Paulownia for the planking strips. Uniquely, the strips in our Bear Mountain Boats kits have not only a bead-and-cove profile but also a pre-cut finger joint at each end, making the neat joining of strips even easier for builders at home.

The kit includes:

• Plans
• Instructions booklet
• CNC-cut building forms
• Paulownia strips with bead-and-cove edges and finger joints on both ends
• Ash blanks for decks
• Ash stem strips
• Ash gunwales (inwales and outwales) with scarf joints machined for joining
• Ash thwart
• Cane seats
• Waterproof glue for the strips
• Epoxy resin and activator
• Dispensing pumps
• Digital scales
• Epoxy fillers
• Woven glass fabric on a roll
• Free technical support from a competent builder

Please note that the kit does not include the box beam strongback for mounting the building forms on. You can either use a straight length of suitable timber or order the box-beam strongback we supply.

What else do I need?

Strongback

This strongback is made up of CNC-cut MDF panels that fit together to form a strong and stiff box beam measuring 200 mm × 200 mm and long enough to build the boat. You'll need a pair of trestles or sawhorses to raise it to a comfortable working height.

Plans and Instructions (not required by kit purchasers)

The plans contain sufficient information to make it possible to build the boat from scratch rather than a kit. The plans are printed in colour and include scale plans and full size drawings for all the forms.