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I have just posted some photographs of our summer/ fall journey to scandinavia - not all pictures are paddling pics, but feel free to have a look on what we did in the time out of the shop... Best wishes Chris http://www.natur-im-sucher.com/schweden_2005/index.html P.S. The kayak in the Polarmuseum ...

Hello Folks, after a long time of abstinence I´m back home. I had a year of and after building my first boat - with the great help of this forum - I was on travel with my wife and the two children. We spend about three and a half months in Sweden and Norway this summer and autumn and had some good t...

I sanded the backside of the stemband and glueid it with thickend epoxy, I additionally screwed it with small brass screws (2,5mm thick) . I dipped the screws in a little amount of sicaflex marine sealer for sealing the holes in the wood.

Best regards and good luck

Chris

Hello, as I mentioned in the project directory, I´m very glad to finished my Freedom 17" sucessfully. I`m quite satisfied with the result - and all of you in this great forum have a great part in it. So agan I have to say thank you all! Our boat got the name " Silent ripple " - don`t...

Hello, I like to attach a small Minn Kota Electronic Outboarder for Photowork on my canoe. This will be a very raraly use, so I like to make a easy to attach and remove motorbracket. Has anyone build somethong like that?Maybe you got a picture of it? On my Royalex Mad River I simply atteched the mot...

Hi there, I´ve been a little abstinent from the forum the last days, because I was very busy. The bolts from US arrived this week, so I finished the Freedom 17 this week. On his maiden voyage with my wife and my two children it performed well. I will soon post some actual photographs. Finaly we foun...

Hi Randy,

I did the same as Rod says - worked fine. There is no visible line or something to see on the gunnels

Good luck

Chris

In the last days I got some more experience using the DD Polyurethane Bootlack of Epifanes - maybe it`s interessting for some guys: At the first coats I thinned it with the special paintbrush thinner of Epifanes - worked not good. The last two coat I used it without any thinner and now I used the We...

Hi there, I´m think I will finish the varnishing at the begin of next week, so the stem band will the last act before the maiden voyage... :eyebrows It searched the forum for other threads about this, however there are a few things I´m not sure about: - Canoecraft tells to use a "bedding compou...

Interessting that you have good results with the 1K Bootlak of epifanes. I´m using Epifanes DD Polyurethan 2-K Varnish, because my dealer (he is the general dealer for Epifanes Germany, the company is located very close to us in the netherlands) told me, that the tradtitional Bootlak won`t be adhere...

Hi Glen, the bending went fine, and teh result was very very very strong... I have done a little bit to much in using 6 strips of 3mm thickness and about 4 and a half cm wide. It took me abozt 300g resin to glue and the result was a absolut heavy thing with a weight of between 500 and 600 Gramm. We ...

Hy there - couldn`t believe it - my Freedom 17" looks like ready for varnishing. Fixed the hardware today (only have to wait for some long brass carriage bolts from Maine). The laminated deep thwart I build was so massive, that a elephant could sit on it, I made it a little to heavy I think - g...

While I´m waiting for my ordered my brass countersink bolds, I´m thinking about the "How to" installing the seats in the best manner. A boatbuilder from Bavaria told me, that he always countersunk the carriage bolts. He stzressed, that it is important to make a perfect right angle drill, e...

Glen, the guy I told you about is Thomas Einsiedel in Wendelstein, Germany. He has a homepage as well. Here is the complete information: ------------------------------- KANUGA Canoe/Kajak Richtweg 59 90530 Wendelstein Telefon 09129/2877-61 Telefax 09129/2877-62 info@kanuga.de www.kanuga.de ---------...

Maybe I should go paddling with my good old Mad River Duckhunter???? Weather is fine and I should get that special "rubbermaid" feeling

Chris