The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Since everyone is posting their favorite knot site I will join in.


Great Visuals:




http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php

Figure 8 bow line

http://www.animatedknots.com/fig8follow ... irectional

I use foam pads on my mini van. Its a 2005 Chevy Uplander and the roof rack didn't even come with cross bars just the side rails. :mad The foam pads worked out great and hold the canoe very steady. The canoe sits nicely between the side rails. The photo is is from campmor but many places carry these...

Cool looking place. Everyone's paddles seemed to have elongated blades. Is that the style there or is it a function of the type of kayaking?

The geography of the land looked interesting too. It looked to be somewhat volcanic in formation.

Thanks. I keep feeding her information.

I'll let you know my, uumm I mean her grade.

Just about anyting to do with the innet stem was done by hand. Once all the strips and the outer stem was on I did use a orbital to smooth out the strip's transition into the outer stem.

OUTSTANDING!



Great attention to detail. A miror finish on the varnish. Very well done men.

My 12 year old daughter is doing a presentation on the use of math in a profession. Well she presented a few ideas one being canoe building and the teacher loved it :razz . We will use math to calculate the material requirements for building the hull. All Ideas will be considered. But I am looking f...

Get rid of the Keel. Strip out the seats and replace with one very light seat. Cut the decks down. Minimize the yoke. Grind down the gunnels.

A little off topic, but as long as the discussion is about canoes I fugure I am safe.


I believe on the cover of Canoe Craft is the old Redbird design. Look how sharp the entry is on the bow.

:shocked

Off the particular topic here, but I have a few Redbird questions. I see that your " foot ball" is done in herringbone fashion. I was led to believe that this is more suited to flat bottomed , low rockered boats. The Redbird is neither of those. Did you have any problems doing it this way...

Bassbug wrote

How much does your cypress Redbird weigh?

A lot. :frightened

I'll step on a scale with and without it and let you guys know.

At least I feel better about the seats.

Take a look at this photo of my Redbird. Did I mount my seats up too high? They are about 1" - 1 1/2" below the wales. Too high, just right or close enough?


http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/georgetcu ... pg&.src=ph

Just to let you know it can be done. I have walnut gunwales bonded to cedar scuppers and all expoxied onto the shear line of the canoe. No problem. I used thickened Raka epoxy (silca was the thickner). http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/georgetcucchi/album?.dir=ebcb&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&...

I used ebay to get the wood I wanted for my outer stem. I used Cocobola and it bent and glued up fine. Latter I learned where to get choice wood locally so I never had to use ebay again. But it worked fine for one 60" piece.

I bet you will build a kayak before you build another canoe.

:razz