The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Camper1, I built a stitch & glue kayak with luana plywood (1/4 underlayment) the kayak turned out ok as far as functionality, but there two things I found different from the kit I bought with 3mm marine plywood. One would be the weight it is 2 times heavier than marine plywood. Appox. 6mm to 3mm...

This canoe is 14.5' and I'm going to add a keel. I'm thinking the keel will help keep it from oil canning.

I'm building my third canoe. The first two Had arched bottoms, using .20 strips, 6oz outside, and 4oz on the inside with excellent results, however this design is a fishing canoe with a rather flat bottom and square stern, and 40" wide. My concern is that the bottom may oil can using the same c...

What software are you using for designing your canoe?

Wayne, I found a friend that has a bootlace seat from a raddsion canoe he has. I'm going to borrow the seat later this week and document the hole pattern and lace sequence. I will try to post that info next week. the bootlace pattern is closer to the WCHA rawhide pattern than the Gil Gilpatricks can...

Wayne, I'm looking to use cord like the Noah marine picture, But If you look at the picture their drill pattern is different than just having holes equally spaced all the way around the seat, so i'm a little confused. :rolling eyes

I'm looking to use a bootlace pattern on my canoe seat does anyone have or know where I can find the hole pattern and lacing sequence, thanks Keith

yes, I planked my Winisk with pine. With the light color I was going to name here Blondie, but after I was done with the spar varnish it was much darker and thought Maybe it should be called her Amber. I stuck with Blondie.

I'm thinking of painting the inside of my stich & glue kayak cockpit. what is the correct paint to use. I heard of using Sikkens Deckpaint over epoxy primer. is there other paints that is a one step process?

I just ran out of System Three epoxy, but I have some Raka left over from my last project. Can I apply Raka over the top of System Three As filler coats or am I asking for trouble own the road? :roll: