The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

I'd love to see more photos of the build if you have time to post them online. I'll upload a selection of pictures of various stages of the build to an image hosting site and post the link to this thread. This guy uses tape with holes punched through it to laminate carbonfiber bike tubes. Do you th...

Bryan, The gunwales weren't vacuum bagged due to their awkward shape. They were a regular wet layup wrapped with long 2" wide strips of peel-ply to help squeeze out some of the excess epoxy and also leave them with a relatively smooth surface ready for a light sanding. The Core-Cell 2'x4'x1&quo...

My Freedom 17 employed some unconventional materials (for a cedar strip canoe) in an attempt to get the weight down to within ultra-light composite range: http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i384/mdevenyi/10665-Web_Vers-Canoe_OSA.jpg The uni-wale was constructed of Core-Cell foam sheathed with carbo...