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by BradRob
Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:36 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: anyone make their own fairing board?
Replies: 5
Views: 2846

Re: anyone make their own fairing board?

I made my own, and it works great. I can't imagine fairing that smoothly without it. I imagine it can be done, but a good fairing board really levels (actually fairs, I guess) things out over a long distance. I made mine 24" with a third handle in the middle. I use a piece of 1/8" hardboa...
by BradRob
Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:50 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: anyone make their own fairing board?
Replies: 5
Views: 2846

anyone make their own fairing board?

I was just curious if anyone makes their own fairing boards and have come up wit h a way of using hook and loop paper? I have seen some make them out of 1/4 inch ply glassed. Anyone have any ideas?
by BradRob
Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:11 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Tough abrassive resistent bottoms?
Replies: 3
Views: 1943

Tough abrassive resistent bottoms?

Hey all. I am building an Ausable river boat, which is a long flat bottom poling boat. The sides are stripped with 3/4 x1/4 cedar and the bottom is going to be stripped up with 1.5 x 7/16 cedar. This boat will be trailered exclusively and used primarily for night fishing on rivers. I want a tough du...
by BradRob
Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:51 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: New canoe
Replies: 10
Views: 4606

Re: New canoe

Here is a thought when mixing hardwoods with softwoods for accent strips. I have had success with making strips buy gluing the harder wood up with the cedar. If i use the cedar as the outer edge and the hardwood in the inside i now have a piece of hardwood sandwiched between 2 pieces of cedar. The c...
by BradRob
Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:05 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Adjustable front seat in a prospector
Replies: 4
Views: 1672

Re: Adjustable front seat in a prospector

I have a similar question. Has anyone ever devised a seat hanging system utilizing the scuppers. Im thinking both the stern and bow seats could be adjustable or removed if they were to be hung from the scuppers. I have often thought about this but never got into designing a hanging system for the sc...
by BradRob
Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:09 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Inaugural Flip
Replies: 11
Views: 4523

One question, was the hull leaning up stream when it crossed the upstream current?
I have a 16 prosp. and i thouhgt it maneuveres quite nicely, I go solo in it all the time sitting in the bow seat.
I found out along time ago about a leaning upstream hull in a cross current. :embarassed
by BradRob
Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:57 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Ideas for a fly fishing solo boat?
Replies: 4
Views: 3975

Ausable river boat

The Ausable river boat would be my pick. This is a straight forward hard chimed boat. Most of them are 24 foot long but i have seen some reduced down to 17 foot. I have one that iam building at 20 foot. but it would not be that difficult to to reduce it down smaller. These boats have 5 inches of roc...
by BradRob
Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:34 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Nomad launched
Replies: 5
Views: 2330

Very beautiful looking canoe. Great job.
by BradRob
Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:33 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Stapleless Construction Using Straps
Replies: 2
Views: 1765

Hey Jeff good idea, Have you tried installing more than one strip at a time per side?Also did the straps have a tendacy to stretch?
by BradRob
Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:38 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Installing Seats
Replies: 7
Views: 4874

I have seen somewhere, I cant remember just where yet that someone made a seat that can be adjusted easily front to back on cleats. I have also kicked around the idea of hanging seats from the scuppers. Something that could be removed easily and adjusted front to back if needed.. Racing canoes are r...
by BradRob
Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:56 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Sailing the Whitehall?
Replies: 1
Views: 1493

Sailing the Whitehall?

The Bear mountain catalog states that the Whitehall can be set up to sail. Has anyone ever built one and done this? If so how does it handle?
by BradRob
Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:15 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: My Acorn Dinghy launched
Replies: 11
Views: 6680

Very nice looking sailboat
I have been looking for some plans for a cedar strip sail boat. Is there a significant struture difference between the lapstrake and the strips?
by BradRob
Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:17 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Drift boat planking question
Replies: 9
Views: 6246

i have had problems in the past with routing the edges of plywood. it wants to rip and tear instead of cut. I have plans for a drift boat that someone gave me. i will be building the forms for it and doing it with 1.5x 3/8 cedar strips. I also have plans that i copied form an original 24 foot ausabl...
by BradRob
Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:32 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Sanded too much !!!!!!!!
Replies: 13
Views: 4431

Dawne. It was this time last year almost exact. We had high water from the snow melt and i took the prospector down my local river. It was a nice float until WHAM! We floated over a fish structure that we did not see because of the high water. The fish structure had a spike sticking up just under th...
by BradRob
Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:40 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Sanded too much !!!!!!!!
Replies: 13
Views: 4431

At first it seems horrible to have a hole in the hull and unrepairable. But once a person evaluates it it is really not that big of a deal, and realy a pretty simple fix. At one time the boat had a huge hole in the center and that hole was not to bad to fill. All the other ones that might come later...