Ambrose Canoe Company LLC

Dave’s Guide

November 2, 2014

We delivered Dave’s Guide to West Virginia last week out of our PA shop!

I started out years ago doing the right-side up method bracing against the ceiling in my garage. Then we moved into an aircraft hangar where bracing off the ceiling wasn’t possible so we switched to the upside-down method. The new shop also has high ceilings but with conveniently spaced columns we rigged a cable to […]

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Test

October 5, 2014

iPhone test

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Scheduling Notes

September 6, 2014

It will be October before the building upgrades and changes are complete and our ability to work on canoes for the next few weeks will be very limited. Due to all of the setbacks this summer we have missed several deliveries and promises. Those of you patiently waiting on word of your canoes will be […]

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Moving Yet Again

September 6, 2014

This will be the final move but here we are again temporarily displaced and unable to do much of anything. We did manage to get three canoes out and some work done on a few others at a temporary location but now that Labor Day has passed we need to get out of the owner’s […]

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Design Number 4

September 1, 2014

I finally got some technical issues solved and will do some catch-up posts from the last few months! Here’s a 25′ war canoe we repainted: Old Town design #4 is very popular with enthusiasts but not so much with those of us challenged with laying it out and painting it!

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Where have we been?

July 27, 2014

Moving! Things have been hectic around here the last few months and one of the things that dropped out of the routine was obviously posting updates. We are fully out of the aircraft hangar but our building still isn’t ready (I won’t bore you with the details of repurposing an existing building, dealing with small […]

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Louise’s Penn Yan

February 27, 2014

Here’s a catch-up post on the Penn Yan Hunter we’re restoring. Penn Yan used western red cedar for ribs with predictable results: lots of broken ribs. We pulled two that were beyond hope but did backside repairs on all the others to retain the hull shape and patina of the old ribs. This was an […]

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Homeless

February 17, 2014

Well, not really 😉 If you’ve been following along and paying attention to the cluttered background in the posted images, you know that the hangar is standing room only. My friend’s addiction to the big boats has solved the question of “what will we ever do with all this space?” Several months ago an opportunity […]

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Tripping Bottom

February 16, 2014

First coat of shellac on the tripping bottom. After many more coats it will turn amber and provide an easy-maintenance bottom. Sides will get marine enamel paint.

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