The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Thanks again everybody for your help. I think I'll go with a Bryan and Erik combo plan. I'll get the Lee Valley glue (it sure is handy having them a 5 minute drive away) and simply push it into the cove with my finger. On the next canoe, I think I will begin installing the planks cove side up, and t...

By the way (I forgot to include this in my previous reply), I'm now installing the planks just after the bilge, and they are getting more and more horizontal (as opposed to the vertically alinged ones at the sheer line). As such, it is getting trickier to get the glue in the cove of the previously i...

Thanks to all for the helpful comments. After reading your posts, I think I'm going to try to avoid installing a keel. I'm glad I asked about this now, so that (as per Glen's suggesting), I can try to keep the keel line crisp as I'm fairing the hull. I'm not a bad paddler, so I should be able to kee...

I'm a first (but not last) time builder, and love every painstaking minute of the process (even when I don't have a clue what I'm doing). Anyhow, I've about half way through planking, and I know it early to be thinking about this, but should I be putting a keel on it? I plan on using it mostly solo ...