The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Jim,
Any luck getting the twist out? If not you can always use 1/8" strips to laminate up a stem right on the canoe without steam. No worries.

Beautiful project Lance. It's looking really good.

The final turned out pretty well. I did end up with an unanticipated scarf joint - remember the old adage about measuring twice and cutting once? I cut the gunwale a foot short - right on my mark where to stop routing a roundover cut. Fortunately I had about six inches extra length I could use in a ...

My wife and I christened my Passage Solo today March 19th - I started cutting strips the day after Christmas. Final weight is 40 lbs on the dot with 3/8" outwales and 1/4" ash inwales offset with 1/4" cherry scupper blocks. Seats and thwarts are ash. I only paddled a few minutes until...

I thought this thread had died! I also posted to the kayak building forum with no responses. I applied the 4th coat of this varnish to the outside of my canoe last night. Admittedly I have no other experience with this or any other varnish, but it went on easily with no problems using foam brushes. ...

I agree with Jim and Glen. A circular saw with a thin carbide 24 tooth blade - I bought the Freud Diablo based on others around here- with an aluminum rip guide works well. Very uniform strips and little waste. If you can find wide stock - 1x10, 1x12 - it goes really fast. I used clamps to hold the ...

So I made up a couple rough mock-ups tonight with scrap and cardboard for decks. I definitely did not like the open wedge shaped gap where the scuppers end. I think I'll pass with the cherry wedge too. I liked the look of continuing both layers of the inwale to the tip. I thought it might be too thi...

Kurt,

I took a look at that design. Very cool. It will be one sweet boat.

Tim

Oh man, you're killing me with your work. I'll never be able to post pictures of how mine turns out - too embarassed.

Thanks

Tim

Thanks Randy. Still scratching my chin but now considering just continuing the 1/4" cherry solid to the tip stopping the scuppers as you did. With only 1/2" of total inwale thickness and 3/8 outwale thickness, I'm thinking it won't be too bulky. As I cut the blocks I think I'll tape or hot...

Another question moving further along in construction. I plan to make scuppered inwales for my Passage Solo similar to John Michne's instructions. I've ripped ash to 1/4x 3/4 which will be scarfed and have cherry in 1/4" x 3/4" for the scupper blocks. I plan to use 1/4" thick cherry f...

Thanks Glenn. Popped the canoe off the miolds tonight and ready to start the inside. Not sure if I like how the colors turned out. Next time.... http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h450/woodguy00/IMG00228-20110126-1906.jpg http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h450/woodguy00/inside.jpg http://i1110.ph...

I'm in the middle of building NW Canoe's Passage Solo. This is my first stripper after building a Folboat about 30 years ago, a stitch and glue duck boat about ten years ago and a fiberglass covered foam duckboat a couple years back. I just took the canoe off the forms tonight and will start working...

Has anyone used the Last n Last Marine and Spar Varnish sold by Raka ? Larry says it works well over their epoxy. Has anyone tried it? It cost about $17 per quart. I received this from Absolute Coatings, the manufacturer today: Our Marine and Door Spar Varnish can be applied over epoxy but the surfa...

Thanks everybody for your encouragement. I precoated last night with good results and today applied two layers of 4 oz glass in two layups - one layer for the entire outside and a second 30" layer on the bottom. It is looking really good. The RAKA epoxy is working great as I've made a plastic t...