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- Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:43 am
- Forum: Choosing a Design
- Topic: Cottage cruiser vs 16' prospector
- Replies: 1
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Re: Cottage cruiser vs 16' prospector
Prospectors were designed to carry heavy loads with good manoeverabilty on rivers... the displacement is 420 pounds vs 337 on the Cottage Cruiser (this includes the weight of the canoe). If a Prospector is too lightly loaded (eg. on a day paddle going solo), it can be blown around very easily by win...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:17 am
- Forum: Project Directories
- Topic: Freedom Solo 15' 3" or 16' 2"
- Replies: 97
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Re: Freedom Solo 15' 3" or 16' 2"
Beautiful combination of wood tones, Randy. My solution to the tippy feeling would be to paddle kneeling Canadian style and callus up those knee caps. Sitting only, maybe a lower seat. The back rest might be adding to the tippy feel if it is preventing hip rotation from damping out any rolling actio...
- Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:54 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Varnish
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6659
Re: Varnish
...I was wondering if it would create any problem if I would step the outer and fit it tight to the inner, covering the hull. You must be referring to the outwales..? And rabetting them out to an L-shape so that they fit over the top and outside of the sheerline at the same time? These are on my Hu...
- Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:56 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Scarf Orientation Question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9964
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Thoughts on seat depth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8354
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:54 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Epoxy repair coat needed?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8379
Keith, some of those scratches look deep enough to go into the fiberglass. My stripper gets some damage, I've filled in deep scratches as they occur, with epoxy using an artist's brush, sanded to remove gloss and then spot-varnished for UV protection. The main thing here is to keep varnish from pene...
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:14 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Epoxy repair coat needed?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8379
If the abrasion has gone far enough to expose a lot of fiberglass cloth, maybe it is better to seal it with epoxy and make repairs where necessary. If the hull is very rough, allowing varnish to soak cloth and cedar might mean epoxy bonding problems later on since epoxy will not bond well to varnish...
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:46 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Fresh water mermaids?
- Replies: 3
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- Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:31 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: inwale and scupper dimensions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6203
...my inwales are 7/8 x 3/4. At first I wasn't sure because it seems it would make more structural sense to have the 7/8 side be vertical and the shorter sides level with the hull. IMO... better to glue the inwale on with the greatest amount of surface area available to the hull, so that the possib...
- Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Shallow coves - gap problem
- Replies: 14
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Woodguy, How are the gaps seen from the inside? Will they be as visible as on the outside of the hull? It may be possible to paint the exterior if the inside is tight and still get a very good-looking canoe,.. eg. this Winisk from Green Valley. http://www.greenval.com/gargantua_3.jpg http://www.gree...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:50 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Uni-wale?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 151488
Randy and Moonman... I was planning to bolt the seat directly under the inwales, without any drops... the center depth of the solo hull is only twelve inches and that doesn't leave much room for kneeling paddlers to slide feet underneath (at least those with big feet). My other canoes have eleven in...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:03 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Increasing freeboard
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14998
It shouldn't be a problem affecting performace wrt hydrodynamics, since the hull shape below the water line won't change. Windage, the force of the wind affecting the canoe, will increase as the depth increases, especially if the canoe is lightly loaded and riding high in the water. Steve Killing wr...
- Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:28 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Fiberglassing in cold temps
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7936
Do a test with some clean plywood, fiberglass and epoxy at the temperature you'll be working at and note how the wetout performs and how long till the epoxy gets tacky enough to apply fill coats. Allow some cloth to droop over the plywood edge and watch for any milky characteristics in the thick epo...
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:00 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Sanding too smooth?
- Replies: 5
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Randy I was using the squeegee on the hull and the glass was sliding around more than I'd like... On the inside of the hull, any excess epoxy may be flowing down and pooling up at the bottom and that may be causing the sliding (fiberglass may be floating a little). Fiberglassing the outside, excess ...
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:32 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Uni-wale?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 151488
Well... the website with the photos of the removeable yoke I referred to earlier is gone and the builder isn't answering an email I sent several day's ago. This was a very straightforward design and shouldn't be difficult to design on one's own... simple and quick, slides in under the inwale, and fa...