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Thanks everyone! I got the varnish sanded off the seat and noticed "OCT 2005" branded/stamped inside the frame. I sanded around the...

Well, if Paul or you ever decide to get the bare hull down out of the rafters for inspection, the stems may help narrow the...

Pseudonym, if you get tired of trying to salvage the wooden parts, they are made by Ed's Canoe: https://www.edscanoe.com/becareco.html...

Removal of the caning in the seat was a CHORE that I underestimated. A dear friend of mine has learned to cane recently with a group of...

As I put together my plan of attack, I was glad to find @Mike McCrea's very comprehensive rebuild thread for his own Yellowstone. That...

I've just begun to rebuild a Bell Wildfire/Yellowstone RX that I was gifted last summer, from @saltandsky. He was kind enough to offer...

Over the past two days I got all three big panels sewn together. I found some thin webbing and decided to use those instead of the...

No worries, I wasn't offended. I was going to explain in my earlier post but didn't. I guess I didn't explain well enough that the bolt...

It seems like the European market is mostly centered around Royalex and T-Formex canoes without a lot of lightweight composites. At at...

O.K. I didn't mean to offend you. I didn't realize that there is also an ultra-lightweight fraction in the sport of canoeing, who do...

I figured that would look funny. I'm going to do a lot more rasping and sanding than just those ends. The yoke is beefy enough for a...

by the way - here there you can find a lot of screw bolts with knobs - which will be able to fix your problem...

🤣 ha ha, that was a good one.

Swift offers a lightweight fabric yoke that may be satisfactory for short carries...

You are right sweetfancymoses. Since yesterday was rain all day I did get some more sewing done. I laid out the finished awning along...