Not quite finished... but progress

[gomer]

She's coming along.

[TDHofstetter]

DANG that looks like pleasant work! A lot OF it, but pleasant!

[Stretch]

Looking great Kyle! I can't wait to see it finished.

[sachbvn]

That is sure lookin' like a canoe!

Looks good Gomer, I think making something like that would be really awesome.


Zac

[lpdicecco]

Kyle,

WHOOPEE !!!

Larry Di

[law]

How do you water proof this canoe ?

Larry

[sawduster]

Great job and it is moving right along.

You gonna use fiber glass and epoxy, or some other method of sealing it? Shame to put paint on all that nice work.

[gomer]

Thanks for the comments guys. No paint on this baby. It will be epoxied and fiber glassed. 3 coats of epoxy inside and out. Then 4 to 5 coats of Epifanes spar varnish. I'm anxiously awaiting the fiberglass part. Not my favorite part. Very tricky business. Temp has to be perfect along w/ humidity. So, being from Texas it may be next Fall before I can do it.

[boodrow]

Gomer u da man! looks like u got the boat buildin down pat. No way Id ever get in a boat I built
Boodrow

[Stretch]

May 26, 2010 17:30:10 GMT -6 gomer said:

Thanks for the comments guys. No paint on this baby. It will be epoxied and fiber glassed. 3 coats of epoxy inside and out. Then 4 to 5 coats of Epifanes spar varnish. I'm anxiously awaiting the fiberglass part. Not my favorite part. Very tricky business. Temp has to be perfect along w/ humidity. So, being from Texas it may be next Fall before I can do it.

Maybe if you had a friend in Lindale that would let you use his air conditioned shop...oh wait, you do. ;D

[gomer]

Mark, now there is an idea. How about I just leave it w/ you, and let you fret the fiberglass work. My only time working w/ the stuff was on the pirogue and boy, was that a mess. I have been reading all that I can find as to the tricks of the trade and it scares me to pieces. Oh well, like I said before, you learn by doing. If it doesn't turn out perfect, then it will definitely have my mark on it. Thanks for the kind offer. If this summer is typical, I may just bring her down and we can make a weekend out of it. I'll just stay at Miranda's. I'm sure she won't mind.

Boodrow, thanks but I'm still just a rook. You can meet up w/ us and I can just WATCH you two. I'll bring the Millers and Coronas.

[Stretch]

Well it seems that you've worked with fiberglass exactly one more time than I have. ;D I say you bring it down, I'll get some steaks. Boodrow can come up with some of his Natty Lite, and Cody can bring some corona and we'll just make a day of it. Sure, the fiberglass may not come out perfect, but we'll have a good time. ;D

[Ruffnek]

May 26, 2010 20:01:11 GMT -6 Stretch said:

Well it seems that you've worked with fiberglass exactly one more time than I have. ;D I say you bring it down, I'll get some steaks. Boodrow can come up with some of his Natty Lite, and Cody can bring some corona and we'll just make a day of it. Sure, the fiberglass may not come out perfect, but we'll have a good time. ;D

Now THAT sounds like a great idea!

[gomer]

Heck we got Cody on our side. Nothing less than perfection will do.

[Beamer]

That looks dang neat, Kyle!

I dig following this process along

[Leo Voisine]

Just love watching this -- one day, in the distant future - I will be posting a Kayak build.

This is inspiration to me.

[maxwellsmart007]

Looks like a lot of fun...

I'm a bit confused by your keel strip, though...is there a reason why you didn't run the strip all the way from the front to the back? Is it too hard to clamp the keel strip to the end stations that way?

Are you going to use a scarf joint to connect the long keel piece to the curved end pieces?

Looks very good - which plan is it?

Andrew

[sawduster]

I used that autobody polyester resin on that plywood pirogue I built way back when. It works with the fiberglass cloth, and also dissolves fiber insulation which I used for filets. I have read both that it is more resistant to UV than epoxy and also less. I used it because it was significantly cheaper that epoxy, but it cures to a reddish translucent color which I think you want to avoid as it would hide the grain of the wood.

[gomer]

Andrew, thanks for the compliment. There is no keel strip. Those are the stems. A keel is a very controversial item on canoes. Some prefer it but I do not. The minimum tracking improvement is just not worth it. Plus I want a boat that turns easy in whitewater, and a keel tends to hangup and get ripped quicker than any part of a canoe. There will be an outside stem on both ends though that flow into the bottom hull @ the keel line. With the shallow v bottom this boat is made for rivers and tracks rather well for lakes. It is always a compromise of one thing for another. This is the Chestnut Prospector from Bear Mountain.

[boodrow]

Sounds like a plan to me , but as Stretch pointed out , I just drink the priemum beer , natty lite.