The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

I went out as a volunteer a bit back in my Redbird with an organization (Team River Runners -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/136408740383930) that spends time on the water putting Vets, disabled and otherwise, in kayaks and canoes and generally has a good time spreading love and knowledge about be...

Thanks Jim

Plus the book ,,, My wife is not going to be happy about this.

Look my boat is wrinkled, tarnished, moldy and ugly. but when I get out on the water, people say holy *^%*, did you build that?. And I say yes ma'am.

http://shawnkielty.blogspot.com/2021/09 ... etion.html

Oh man, don't give up. Just keep going with sandpaper glass and epoxy.

I used white oak for the gunwales on my redbird, and it's about 75 pounds(The boat). It weathered the last winter outdoors, and we had a bit of rain here in California. I recently scraped and sanded all that oak and re varnished all of it. I personally would choose a hardwood for the gunwales, decks...

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It's taken awhile, but it's ready for the maiden voyage. Thanks to all for the help and encouragement along the way. http://shawnkielty.blogspot.com/2021/09 ... etion.html

Mine is on about it's third life and a year ago when I moved ... I took it apart and put it back together. Screws, and no glue is my advice.

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Patched and sanded.

Hi Jim, Brian. Thanks for your comments. The weather here is just commenting now about spring, and that means that it can be somewhat nice. The last day of possible frost here is 2/21, and even at best, it's hardly a frost. I have a pretty good space here and what I have been referring to as "i...

Well -- so I have patched the bottom, which seems ok at the moment. Since it's been some time since I worked on the canoe I wet sanded the area to be patched to help create a mechanical bond for the new layer of epoxy. I waited till the warmest part of the day (67 F.) and layed down a patch of glass...

Not entirely sure this is going to work (the images). I put them up on the blog and linked in line [edited]. This is a summary of yesterday's efforts. Notice the use of a monofilament line to create a CL for the strongback. https://shawnkielty.blogspot.com/2021/01/redbird-progress.html https://shawn...

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For whatever unknown reason, I am unable to attach any photos.