Design
Nice Canoe 16
Designed by Jacques Mertens
The Nice Canoe 16 (NC16) is a low-cost canoe plan from Bateau / Boat Builder Central, the plan house founded by designer Jacques Mertens. It is listed among the canoes, kayaks and dinghies, and the seller also offers a CNC-cut okoume plywood kit and epoxy kits for it. The product page currently carries no description or specifications, so length, beam and weight are not recorded here.
No building method or skill level is published for this plan. As a rule of thumb, a first plywood and epoxy canoe of this size takes 60 to 120 hours, and the CNC kit should shorten that. Measured medians from build logs appear below.
What building a Nice Canoe 16 actually takes
Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.
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Builds of this boat
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| Design | Plans from | LOA | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-Foot Little Auk | Chesapeake Light Craft | 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) | 0 |
| 11-Foot Little Auk | Chesapeake Light Craft | 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) | 0 |
| 11' 4" Wee Lassie | Newfound Woodworks | 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) | 0 |
| 11' 9" Otter | Newfound Woodworks | 11′ 9″ (3.58 m) | 0 |
| 12' 8" Excursion | Newfound Woodworks | 12′ 8″ (3.86 m) | 0 |
| 13' 3" Wee Lassie II | Newfound Woodworks | 13′ 3″ (4.04 m) | 0 |