The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Wow Glen that is one excellent job of building. i bet it will perform as well as it looks. Best of luck on your next one and I wish that I lived closer to the get together, I would love to meet you and to see and perhapse paddle one of your beautys. J. R. Ackleyi

Mark: I agree with Bryan that the Guillemot is not a great tracking kayak, however as you gain eperiance the tracking will be less of an issue. I think it should be concidered, I am however prejudiced as I have one. I have paddled quite a number of kayaks and find that the Guilly was the best for ME...

I will be happy to share my perspective, thank you for asking. I will endevor not to be too verbose. Why have you built your own boat? I saw my first strip canoe in the BWCA in the early 80's. It was a thing of beauty and it glided across the lake like the shadow of a cloud. I was hooked and had to ...

Mark: The answer to your question is mostly no, I don't have much history for the canoe. I had purchased a fireplace insert on ebay from a man in Albert Lea, MN. As we were loading it into my van I noticed an old canoe hanging on the back wall. I mentioned that it looked like quite the old campainer...

I have recently aquired an old strip canoe. It is in very bad shape as far as the finish coat of epoxy goes, but the wood seems to be in very good shape. There is only one tear in the fiberglass and it is very small, less than 6 inches I'd say. Some have advised taking all of the glass of and sandin...