The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Most of the tandem designs from BMB are about the same as far as building. As said above the ones with tall stems may require steaming or laminating gunnels, an added step that first timers may want to avoid. It is not, however, beyond the novice to do those things. Choose you hull instead according...

Red River Canoe in Manitoba has two interesting solos. The 13' Esprit and the 14' Fox.. The Esprit sounds more like your style. Doug has sold plans in the past, though I see no mention on his website currently. I got plans for the Fox years ago and they are for forms to build wood/canvas canoe molds...

I have often had one on the strongback and one in the cradle. I'd pull one off the molds and set up to strip the next while I finished the inside and trim on the other. I cannot imagine, especially at my age, glassing two in the same day as described above. My pace is a little slower these days!

http://www.realcedar.com/find-a-retailer/ Here is a start. Probably a business with "millwork" in the name might be more likely to have clear grade. Start close to home and work your way out. If you are near Minneapolis or Chicago there are likely to be suppliers there. Almost every big ci...

Its just 3/16 inch solid braid nylon. I've got some seats out there 30 years old. The frames are dense grain southern yellow pine. I saw 3/16 solid braid in colors recently. I think that would be nice.

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have gone through some rebuilding the last two years. I thought some folks may be interested in how these boats age. I am amazed at how well the wood/epoxy/glass composite holds up over time. It does not seem to be brittle and delaminations are only occurring when I abuse the boat. They are also eas...

I think the fillet is a good idea to clean up places that are just about impossible to smooth and clean. The area you mention i also hard to get debris out of when cleaning your boat. The fillet will help with that, too. Two suggestions. Make the fillet only deep enough to cover the rough area. Fill...

The bulkheads in my boats are removable. They are wedged against a wood cleat on the bottom of the breastplate and are held in place at the end of the stem with a screw into a small block glued to the top of the end of the stem. I use my boats hard and occasionally have a repair to tend to in the st...

Actually the links at the top of the page don't work either.

Thanks for addressing this!

I am not trying to be pushy here as I know that maintaining websites as big as the Bear Mountain Boats site is a major job. That said. It would be nice if the links on the forum page would work again. My argument for fixing them... Today somebody posted a new post in the "Choosing a design"...

The Ranger is the beamier hull, except at the gunnel as it has more tumblehome


nomad
Maximum beam 35"
• Beam w/l 32.6"
• Beam gunnel 34"
• Bow height 25"

ranger
Maximum beam 35.2"
• Beam waterline 33.72"
• Beam gunnel 33.5"

Using your Ranger forms stretched to 17 feet would be just fine. Its will be very similar to the Nomad. Do your calculations carefully and after the forms are set up check the fairness with full length strips or battens. For your family I would suggest adding some depth at center and then faired out...

unless you remove the bruised cloth. When the cloth gets bruised the fibers separate from the resin and re-wet out just never happens. If you sand off the bruised cloth you would be going down to the wood and can usually get a pretty clear patch. I use real course(50 grit) sand paper on a hard foam ...

Alick! I order to tighten the nails you have to have clinching iron on the inside while you tap on the outside. This will turn the nail a little bit more to tight it up. Hard to do alone. A better job for two people. I may humbly suggest that you cover the outside with veneers after you clean off al...

Alick! What mess this canoe is! I believe you have a wide-board canoe, looks like 3 planks per side. The longitudinal battens cover the plank edges. The planks were steamed and then clinch-nailed to the ribs. This could be a very old boat. It was never meant to be fiberglassed, but was probably orig...