A canoe built from plywood and epoxy sounds simple until the lesson gets to lofting, jigs and scarfing. Brookfield Craft Center describes this Thomas J. Hill video as a start-to-finish guide to a one-person lapstrake canoe, right down to painting and varnishing. The label on this copy says over 90 minutes. I can see why you’d want a rewind button before cutting the first plank.
On the label and in Brookfield’s program description
- Ultralight Boatbuilding with Thomas J. Hill, Brookfield Craft Center Video Library.
- Brookfield describes plans and drawings, lofting, jigs, planking, gluing, scarfing, painting, varnishing, materials and small-boat care and handling.
Tape details
- Commercial-release VHS; printed program label on a tape pictured with a generic T-120 sleeve.
- The label says ‘VHS/Over 90 minutes’ and carries a 1990 Brookfield Craft Center copyright. Brookfield’s program listing gives 135 minutes for its VHS; this copy has not been timed.
- Condition recorded as good. Not yet streamed. Archive ID: VHS-2026-1331.
