Wooden canoe is launched and paddled with a wooden oar.THELMA

Photos by Darrel Neaves

When cousins Tristan Brown and Tom South teamed up to build an 11′ 4″ Wee Lassie canoe, it was a first boatbuilding project for both of them. For a shop, they set up a tarpaulin shelter in the back yard of the Brown family home in Southampton, Hampshire, England. In 2020, they got off to a quick start, cutting the molds according to the plans by Mac McCarthy, but then they got sidetracked by...

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