Canoe/Canvas shelter

[Murv]

I'm wanting to make me a shelter using my canoe and a peice of canvas. Does anybody have any experience with, and or ideas?
Thanx
Murv

 

[Homesteader]

Simplest thing ever. I brace up my canoe with the paddles, lay down a ground cloth (or fold over part of a long tarp), run lines from the tarp over and down along the bottom of the canoe to stakes and others from the other side at a downward angle. Just kinda makes a lean-to with the canoe as an extra wall. When tightened it makes it all very sturdy. Surprisingly good in bad weather if you locate it well.

Hope that made sense...

 

[Murv]

Thanx for the info. and I guess I should have been a little more open. If someone has a pic they'd post showing the canoe shelter that'd be great.
I'd use my paddles to hold up my canoe but they're real long...so I used some hickory branches.,
Murv

 

[Homesteader]

Murv, it looks like you've got the idea. I did a quick 'net search and came up with a couple of sites that may be of some use...
http://www.paddling.net/sameboat/archives/sameboat183.html
http://tfo.org/emissions/rendezvousvoyageur/en/world/knowhow/shelter.html

The pictures give you an idea of what works, though I tend to make my "tent" run from stem to stern, and run it out far enough to have more area under canvas. It lets me keep my gear and dog under there with me. I adapt it all as the situation dictates. Of course..!

I've even slept in an open canoe on the water, and on land under an over-turned canoe without canvas on occasion. Didn't like it, but it shows how variable it can all be. :wink:

 

[onepaw]

couple pics half way down the page http://www.wizzywigweb.com/longshot/diamond.htm

 

[Murv]

Thanx for the pics, and links guys, it is excellent, Looking forward to gettin out and camping this way, then when I wake, a little fishing,,,ahhh :grin:

 

[mazo kid]

.....I'd use my paddles to hold up my canoe but they're real long...so I used some hickory branches. Murv

If you lean your paddles, you can adjust your height that way. Here is a photo of a canoe trip of several years ago using a North canoe for a shelter.Lots of space under the "hog house"!