The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Looked through some of my old postings and saw that the link two postings up was wrong. Here is the correct link: http://www.kanokajakksiden.info/Konverteringsside.htm

GeirB

Yesterday night when I zapped through the tv-channels I came across a programme on building a birchbark canoe, Ray Mears Bushcraft on BBC Prime. This time he was in an indian aerea (in Canada??), building a canoe the traditional way. He was instructed by an indian, (did`nt get his name, think it was...

My consern is that I squeezed out too much of the thickened epoxy when I clamped for glueing. I used epoxy with thickener, microfibre and woodflour. I like the "clean" look of a installation without screws or plugs. I also like the look of contrasting plugs. This will ad a decorative eleme...

Just finnished glueing gunwales an decks on my new Prospector, using thickened epoxy. Now I`m not sure if I should use (brass)screws or wooden plugs to strenghten the installation or just leave it the way it is. I think wooden plugs would look good, but need advise on drilling through both in and ou...

He is still my friend, but I am sure he will not borrow any canoe from me in the future. It is careless to leave anything unsecured on a riverbed, he could have tied it to a rock or something or carried it in to the forest. It seems like his insuranse will cover, he is now in a discussion over value...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/hovland/Kanokajakk%20div%20bygging/Prospectorvrak_stor.jpg This summer a friends asked if he could borrow my canoe for a few weeks when I was at work in the North Sea. I said ok. His farm borders a fine riverstretch in Verdalselva (Verdal River). We had a warm...

Thanks, here is a pic of what is going to be decks.
I think the wood is called goatwillow. The white stripes are aspen.


GeirB

I have the same problem in Norway, cloth is 100 or max 120cm wide. I solved the problem with four "stripes" of cloth near the shearline, actually the stripes I cut of on both sides of the stems. See pics on; http://www.kanokajakksiden.info/Bygging%20duk.htm Text is only in norwegian but th...

Sprouce for hull, alder and aspen in stripe, birch in stems
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GeirB

Yes, finaly. With a new ending, but still the same page. I have had all sorts of problems with my page and webaccount/ domain the last months. All this ended with changeing the ending from .com to .info. I will use this opportunity to thank all visitors and hope all of you with link to my site will ...

Another bottom, knotless sprouce, the white wood is aspen and the brown one is Norwegian black alder. Only sealercoat yet, had to heat the location to do this, hope to get high enough temperatures to do wetout and fillercoats in early april. http://www.kanokajakksiden.info/images/Bottom-stor.jpg GeirB

My experience is the same. On my last project, a Prospector I used two layers of cloth on the outside, so that there was a 20cm stripe on each side covered with one layer and bottom and the rest of the sides where covered with two layers. This means the canoe will be heavier and as far as I understa...

This is interesting, I have both the new and the old edition of Canoecraft. I am building my second Prospector on the same forms. I am not planning to sell any of them, I just want to use my experience (and forms) from the first one to build a lighter canoe with more "artistic" use of diff...

It says the same on my foam brushes, have had no problems at all with the Epifanes varnish. Used a foam roller (?) to apply the varnish and the foam brush after, as a flat brush.

GeirB

Thanks for instant feedback, added text to explain.
Hopefully this will be helpfull to many builders.

GeirB