The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

I just got a shipment of silicon-bronze carriage bolts from this fellow. he shows 6" long available.


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Thanks for all the advice on working with epoxy during hot weather. The cloth soaked out quickly. The epoxy set up very quick; 20 minutes to soft barely caramel like state. Almost couldn't use the squeegee due to extreme thick viscosity by that short time. I put an extra 6" wide skid plate of g...

Thanks Brian,
You answered a question I had in my mind. My manufacturing of the strips produced poor fits between courses of strips. I will be using your filling technique often.

Fairing the hull-3.JPG Outer stem-2.JPG Thanks so much for all your advice. I will be testing the epoxy on scrap today. I love the suggestion to control sweat, sedges. Yesterday as I was fitting and shaping and refitting the stem the sweat was running off the end of my nose like a waterfall. Here i...

Thanks to all for your posts. They have helped me immensely during my Ranger 15 build. Where I am building is my garage which is not heated or cooled. The current temperatures have been in the high 90s F and low 100s for the last few weeks and expected to stay the same throughout the time I plan to ...