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- Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:36 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: anyone make their own fairing board?
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Re: anyone make their own fairing board?
I made my own, and it works great. I can't imagine fairing that smoothly without it. I imagine it can be done, but a good fairing board really levels (actually fairs, I guess) things out over a long distance. I made mine 24" with a third handle in the middle. I use a piece of 1/8" hardboa...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:50 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: anyone make their own fairing board?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3370
anyone make their own fairing board?
I was just curious if anyone makes their own fairing boards and have come up wit h a way of using hook and loop paper? I have seen some make them out of 1/4 inch ply glassed. Anyone have any ideas?
- Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:11 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Tough abrassive resistent bottoms?
- Replies: 3
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Tough abrassive resistent bottoms?
Hey all. I am building an Ausable river boat, which is a long flat bottom poling boat. The sides are stripped with 3/4 x1/4 cedar and the bottom is going to be stripped up with 1.5 x 7/16 cedar. This boat will be trailered exclusively and used primarily for night fishing on rivers. I want a tough du...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:51 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: New canoe
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5843
Re: New canoe
Here is a thought when mixing hardwoods with softwoods for accent strips. I have had success with making strips buy gluing the harder wood up with the cedar. If i use the cedar as the outer edge and the hardwood in the inside i now have a piece of hardwood sandwiched between 2 pieces of cedar. The c...
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:05 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Adjustable front seat in a prospector
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1861
Re: Adjustable front seat in a prospector
I have a similar question. Has anyone ever devised a seat hanging system utilizing the scuppers. Im thinking both the stern and bow seats could be adjustable or removed if they were to be hung from the scuppers. I have often thought about this but never got into designing a hanging system for the sc...
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:09 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Inaugural Flip
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5899
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:57 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Ideas for a fly fishing solo boat?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5353
Ausable river boat
The Ausable river boat would be my pick. This is a straight forward hard chimed boat. Most of them are 24 foot long but i have seen some reduced down to 17 foot. I have one that iam building at 20 foot. but it would not be that difficult to to reduce it down smaller. These boats have 5 inches of roc...
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:34 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Nomad launched
- Replies: 5
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- Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:33 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Stapleless Construction Using Straps
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1953
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:38 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Installing Seats
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5466
I have seen somewhere, I cant remember just where yet that someone made a seat that can be adjusted easily front to back on cleats. I have also kicked around the idea of hanging seats from the scuppers. Something that could be removed easily and adjusted front to back if needed.. Racing canoes are r...
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:56 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Sailing the Whitehall?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1660
Sailing the Whitehall?
The Bear mountain catalog states that the Whitehall can be set up to sail. Has anyone ever built one and done this? If so how does it handle?
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:15 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: My Acorn Dinghy launched
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8269
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:17 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Drift boat planking question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6706
i have had problems in the past with routing the edges of plywood. it wants to rip and tear instead of cut. I have plans for a drift boat that someone gave me. i will be building the forms for it and doing it with 1.5x 3/8 cedar strips. I also have plans that i copied form an original 24 foot ausabl...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:32 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Sanded too much !!!!!!!!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5486
Dawne. It was this time last year almost exact. We had high water from the snow melt and i took the prospector down my local river. It was a nice float until WHAM! We floated over a fish structure that we did not see because of the high water. The fish structure had a spike sticking up just under th...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:40 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Sanded too much !!!!!!!!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5486
At first it seems horrible to have a hole in the hull and unrepairable. But once a person evaluates it it is really not that big of a deal, and realy a pretty simple fix. At one time the boat had a huge hole in the center and that hole was not to bad to fill. All the other ones that might come later...