The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Eight months of hard work but the job is done. My Endeavour saw freshwater last weekend and a summer like calm morning allowed me to go to put in the chuck on Friday and go for a wonderful paddle around a couple of the Northern Gulf Islands. All the work seemed worth it. Today I attended an introduc...

Taking a look at photos of Endeavour builds on the internet show a large variety of strategies for inserting the bulkhead and rudder cable installation. With the bulkhead, the book seems to suggest inserting this once the hull and deck are attached for the final time by kind of toe nailing it with c...

Based on something I saw in a book I had this custom rudder mounting plate made up by a local sheet metal fabrication shop. The plate is 1/8” and both plate and tube are stainless. The pin on my Feathercraft kit rudder fits nicely in the hole and can spin freely but doesn’t have a sloppy feel. The s...

Thanks Gene. This was very good advise indeed. I was able to get this book from my local library and it did provided me with some of the missing information I was needing. I also found some good ideas and information about rudder installation including a nifty s/s mounting plate that a local fabrica...

I have just finished the final glassing of my Endeavour Kayak and am now ready to start working on the openings, coaming and hatch trim. It seems that there are lots of different approaches to these next steps and I am not finding the necessary guidance in Kayakcraft. First the coaming. I have purch...

I stumbled upon a pro woodstrip Kayak builders website the other day and noted that he uses Sikkens Auto Clear instead of varnish. Sounds practical, does anyone else have experience with using this or simmilar products?

Fiber glassing the inside of the hull - The Kayakcraft DVD shows the fiberglass cloth being layed up in section. The book speaks to a long section a bit shorter than the length of the hull and some tricky work around the stems. What is the best and easiest way. Sanding the deck – Would it be better ...

Thanks for sharing your views. I think I am able to follow the comments but it seems that the terminology is inconsistent. I really want to seek out others viewpoints and offer the following definitions for clarity. Double Bead (===) - planking from here is from bead to cove Double Cove )===( - plan...

I am ready to start the deck of my Endeavour 17 and I’m confused about the King Board. I plan on planking out from the King Board so I do not want to use the square edge option. Although it doesn’t come right and say it, KayakCraft seems to be pointing me to milling a cove on either edge. The proble...

Once i decided to buy the plans, I never looked back. What I mean is I didn't compare the plans to the what I was able to draw from the offset tables. If you want to email me I will share some other learnings about what to expect from the purchase plans. We are at the stage of installing our mold st...

Hi Warren - I gave in and bought the paper plans. This certainly cleared up my confusion but I am disappointed that I couldn't get comfortable just using the information in the book.

I have pretty much finished plotting the offsets for the mold stations of the Endeavour having the same problem as others with Station 15 (seems to be too many points on the 6” waterline). I also have strange sheer line points on Sections 1 and 7 – bending away from the curvature of the hull, and I ...