The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Thanks All, appreciate, good to know it will be cool.

Hi All, Just getting into the fun stuff now on my 16' Bob's Special build. I steamed the stems Sunday and used white ash for the inside and outside stems. Last night I epoxy laminated the first set of Stems, and finally took off the clamps a few minutes ago. I was surprised to see they still spring ...

Thanks Brian! - That gives me some additional confidence. Canoecraft is well written and I felt they would've called it out for sure, just had to have a "second" to overcome my gluing instinct.

Hi All, Finally starting my canoe! Have the shop arranged and the wood up on racks. I cut the strongback pieces this past weekend and was going to assemble it last night. (following the canoecraft guide) But reading through the build guide, it doesn't mention gluing as you screw it together. I figur...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I looked a bit at the Champlain, nice, but for some reason the Redbird is stuck in my head. I'm mostly a lake paddler with the occasional lazy river thrown in, so I think that the Redbird is a decent choice for those purposes. It also has the size for me to take...

Thanks Jim

Once I start, my car won't be able to go back in! That's my incentive to keep going. So I can get my car back in the garage before winter really hits again. Wishful thinking I'm sure.

Thanks Cruiser, I saw that thread, it seemed like 18ft planks could do the job based on the comments, albeit with probably not much length to spare. I was hoping someone who had built the Redbird would chime in with the length they used, so I could be a bit more confident in purchasing the lumber. Y...

Thanks Stephen. I'm most likely going to build at designed length. A bit shorter would fit my garage building space a bit better. (My wife's car will still use half..my car will live outside for the build) When I built my house I had them add 3ft of depth and 2ft of width to the standard 20x20 garag...

Hi All, New "hopeful" builder here. I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a build after 25yrs of reading and re-reading various tomes on strip building including Canoecraft. I think that's the general process, right? :wink Anyway I'm trying to get my ducks in a row and was going to get ...