The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

It seems that there is no way to avoid getting stuff on your hands, even if you do wear gloves. I have found that Goo Gone works well and leaves your hands smelling like oranges. cool, huh?

We just finished wetting out our canoe, and we found that Canoecraft forgot to mention one thing about wetting the canoe. Not only does it look beautiful, it smells wonderful too. Our garage now smells strongly of cedar. Cool, huh?

What kind of deck wood should we use? Should we use cherry so it matches our stems and gunnels, or should we use something dark, like walnut, so it contrasts with the silver coin we will inlay into the front deck. What are your opinions? Thanks, Patrick

well, my dad posted some somewhere on here, and i believe he also posted a link to the shutterfly page where we have them. All 500+ pictures we have taken so far are stored on shutterfly, and if you have the link, you can go see all 500 something. i dont know right now, but i just sent him an email ...

Dean, when will we get some more pictures of construction?

In order to fulfill my duty to the HANBORB, I will have to strongly dissagree with you, since the Redbird is truly the best/sleekest/swiftest/fastest canoe on the water (other than those crazy racing canoes). But if you must complain/dissagree, im sure Dean would happily challenge you to a race when...