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- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:26 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Uni-wale?
- Replies: 85
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I think Moonman's yoke that hooks over the seat could meet all your requirements with minor modifications. You could add magnets so that it would stay in place while unsupported upside down. To make it convert to a back rest, you could make notches in the bottom of the yoke supports, and place a bar...
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:52 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Seat Caning
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3317
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:48 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Light weight Canoe
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30093
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:03 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Installing Seats
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5737
Cleats epoxied into the hull to support the seats work well. I have a canoe I built that way about 35 years ago. Seats hanging from the gunwale don't tend to sway if they are fitted well. Some wooden hangers prevent any forward and back deviation by being one piece on each side. This link has descri...
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:39 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Is 9oz. fiberglass cloth too heavy for my Rob Roy?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8416
The test panel will answer the biggest question, of how well the 9 oz cloth wets out. You might want to do part with a seal coat of epoxy to see how much difference there is in the amount of epoxy you need to get to soak in. Slow setting low viscosity epoxy seems like the right approach. Extra glass...
- Thu May 27, 2010 11:50 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Redwood gunwales
- Replies: 11
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- Thu May 27, 2010 11:41 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: inside glassing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3023
Precoating buys you a bit of time in the glass wetout stage because you don't need to apply as much epoxy. If your epoxy cures quickly, it can help keep things under control. But once you've got the glass on, you'll have used the same amount of epoxy whether you did it in one shot, or precoated firs...
- Fri May 07, 2010 10:24 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: "Oil-caning" after staples removed......
- Replies: 12
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- Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:12 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Structural Failures
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1894
Back when people used polyester resin rather than epoxy, the most common failure was delamination of the glass from the wood surface in spots. It's more common on the inside of the hull where flexing can tend to pull the glass away from the wood. This severely weakens the hull, and if it's not repai...
- Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Hanging Seats
- Replies: 7
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- Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:41 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Amount of strips in a day?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2384
If you are using staples, you don't need to wait for the glue. You can just keep going, and get all the strips on rather quickly. It's hard for me to estimate how long it takes though, since I never have more than a couple of hours in a row to work. It might take two days to put the strips on, but t...
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:17 pm
- Forum: Paddles, Techniques, Boat Transportation, Storage & Maintenance
- Topic: Paddle blade surface area
- Replies: 7
- Views: 28433
I'm not really sure what to do with the info, but I would suspect that if you tried various sized and shaped paddles, you would find that each had a different feel, that might be well represented by your graph. Paddles with different curves might differ in their behavior in turning: some like long n...
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:54 pm
- Forum: Paddles, Techniques, Boat Transportation, Storage & Maintenance
- Topic: Paddle blade surface area
- Replies: 7
- Views: 28433
Since you have the spreadsheet and seem to enjoy the math, you might want to consider making the spreadsheet give you more than a single number for the area. As you put the paddle into the water, the effective area increases until the blade is fully submerged. You could make your spreadsheet graph t...
- Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:20 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Grand Laker Gunnels
- Replies: 17
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- Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:21 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: "painting the boat with a thin coat of catalyzed resin.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2888
I've done it both ways. Both work. The differences have to do with how well your hull is prepared before glassing, and how viscous (thick) your epoxy is. If you are in a big hurry, go for the one step route. If you are particularly cautions, coat the hull with epoxy before the glass. The total amoun...