The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Using strips of cardboard (the back of writing tablets) as shims It was easy to level and adjust the mould plates with minimum effort to the wire I strung between the Stem Moulds (see Ted Moores Canoecraft). playing cards make great shims for this purpose: * thin for fine increments * uniform thick...

Oh, my .... the reasons you don't want to do that are too numerous to list on this forum. What you need to do is immediately ship those beams to me in MN where I will properly dispose of them. :wink Actually, reusing the wood is a great idea provided the interior is in good enough shape to yield dec...

You can successfully make small size adjustments in most designs but most any good design scaled down to 50% size will produce a failed canoe.

Better to use a design that was meant to be the size you want.

http://www.carryingplacecanoeworks.on.c ... _list.html has a couple small designs.

Ya need to realize that a large part of Cliff's canoeing is in places where early bailout is difficult and the cost/effort to get there makes it very undesirable to cut a trip short .... makes multilpe layers of protection attractive.

The results of your calculation reveal the basic truth that you can't trim a canoe using seat position alone unless your paddlers are of not too different size. For your situation (mine too), you'd either have to jam the bow paddler into the stems or move the stern padler way up into the fat part of...

I've gone the strip-the-epoxy route and concur that you'd save little if any work relative to starting over unless it's a highly decorated hull requiring a lot of piece work (the kind that Chip S builds) In my case, the canoe and I had 30 years of shared history and the fact that I *REALLY* wanted t...

I withdraw my comment about them using smaller logs ....

http://www.parnupostimees.ee/080704/esi ... 9_foto.php

That is gonna one be a big canoe :shock:

I'm hoping the forum will tolerate this not quite off-topic posting ..... We're planning a trip to our daughter-in-law's homeland, Estonia. Perhaps since the two sides of my own family tree come from relatively waterlogged places (northern MN and southern Louisiana) one place caught my eye, Soomaa N...

Here is what this web site's FAQ says about that topic. Q. Can I modify an existing Bear Mountain design.....can I make changes to your plans? What will the result be? A. We suggest you proceed with caution here. It is hard to predict the performance of a design once it has been changed without taki...

$1.00?? ..... ye peid too much for'em .... Our HD has them for $.99 all the time. I picked up a couple of them every time I went there until I filled the 2nd bucket .... might be enough;-)

I have an adjustable length strongback that various folks have used to make canoes from 15.5 ft to 18 ft long. ... probably could be used to make a 20 footer. Made it using a 13 ft long 3 inch square steel tube with wooden inserts slid into each end and secured by screws thru the steel (4x4 ripped d...

I've made tenons with a crosscut jig on a table saw with the blade peeking up just a quarter inch.

Mortices using a drill press and a quarter inch forstner bit to hog out most of the wood, finish with a chisel

Geir, Don't forget GOG (good old google) ... Searching for: free woodgrain web page backgrounds finds several sources, perhaps the best it found is http://www.allfreebackgrounds.com/backgrounds.html click on WOOD in the frame on the left side While I have your attention, My family will be traveling ...

Sliding bow seats are of limited use in trimming a canoe with different sized paddlers. By "limited" I don't mean without value, just not huge value. They can compensate for weight differences and/or shift you from stern heavy to bow heavy and back only if the weight difference is relative...

A rationale I've heard/read is "You might choose to solo paddle a sym canoe by sitting in the bow seat facing the stern and the slider makes that difficult" ..... but that you'd never want to so that in an asym canoe.

Not sure I buy into that .... but you get to decide that for yourself.