The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

I've built exactly one cedar strip canoe, the Prospector-16. I created the station forms using a CNC router, and was extremely happy I did. To create the profiles, I converted the table of offsets to X-Y coordinates in an Excel Spreadsheet. Once you have these points, I imported them into Autodesk I...

I really like that tipping the strongback. I've been planning to incorporate a tipping mechanism before my next build. Looking at that method, I realize I was over thinking and over complicating it. I was going to make it so the whole strongback support has an adjustable pivot. I was worried about r...

I'm at the final trim phase of my first stripper build, a Prospector 16. Maybe I should have left more room for error on my scupper size & placement but I didn't, and I'm not happy with the way the seat frames line up with the scuppers. I could make them work with hanging them, but I'm leaning t...