The Angler’s Day is stable and perfectly suited to anglers, photographers and birdwatchers. Drawings include option for 1 or 2 paddlers and a hard-chine or classic recurved tumblehome.
The Anglers Day is a modern take on the classic Bob’s Special. She is designed with high initial stability making her a stable platform for those wishing to build a boat for angling, birdwatching or photography. Like the original, she has a fine entry and moderate rocker making her quick to speed and agile the water.
Builders of this canoe will find that we’ve kept materials requirements light. She has modest freeboard and low ends. This means she won’t kick up quite the fight in a wind, however she may not be the best boat for bigger water. Like many of our designs she’s drawn for backwaters, wetlands, bays and meandering rivers and creeks.
Plans for the Anglers Day include options for a solo or tandem seat placements. Plans also come with the option to build her with a hard-chine tumblehome. This option requires more patience when building but increases final stability somewhat. Regardless of building choices, lines below the maximum load waterline remain the same.
The original Bob’s Specials were designed by the Chestnut Canoe Company of New Brunswick and sold to outdoors-men who were looking for a lightweight, stable canoe suited that would be used for a quiet morning on the water, either for fishing or simple relaxation. With time, her shallow-arch broad beam, and low windage made her a favourite of cottagers and families. Notably, she was also a favourite Canada’s outdoor loving Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.
In production by the Chestnut Canoe Company from 1905 to 1979, Bob’s Specials are now featured in the catalogs of more than a dozen canoe manufacturers and her lines have been re-imagined by most major sellers of canoe plans.
The Angler’s Day can be built for solo or tandem paddlers, and is one of the most versatile boats in our line-up. That said, she is probably a better solo than tandem. Choose these canoe plans if you do most of your paddling solo, but require a canoe that accommodates two paddlers from time to time.