Recent content by Bentpushrod

I’ve been wanting to paddle the Liitle Mo for the last couple years. I’m about three hours from Medora, so it’s local for me. You need a minimum of 2.5 feet of water in Medora. It’s always been too low for me to go. Here’s a gauge station for water levels in Medora...

Last May I ran the river from Coal Banks to James Kipp. We hired a shuttle to pick up our vehicle at Coal Banks and drop it off at James Kipp. Here’s a link: https://mroutfitters.com/ I’ve also done a couple trips on the lower Yellowstone from Intake, MT to the confluence of the Yellowstone and...

Yes it is a large boat, can’t wait to do some paddling tandem. It just dwarves my 15’ solo.

Thank you! I’m in a curling league, my teammates and I decided we needed a van to make the 120 mile round trip to the curling rink each week. We all pitched in and bought this one. I absolutely love the thing and want to buy the other three guys out lol. If you zoom in on the photo of the van...

Well she floats! There is a lake a couple hundred miles south of me that stays ice free year round, as the lake water cools a power plant, warm water from the plant then goes back into the lake. Fun day, the boat paddles well, however it was a bit breezy, and the wind wanted to push me around...

Weighed the boat, she came in at 72 pounds.

Thanks for all the kind words. Lowangle Al, I have a nice piece of Cherry, I’ve been thinking of making a pole, and a Guide paddle out of!

Well she’s pretty much done. Still need to add loops to the lining holes, and add portage pads. Waiting game for ice out now.

Inside varnish is done. My first boat I used Epifanes. This time around I went with Total Boat Gleam. Epifanes is great, but with the size of this boat, looking to save a few bucks. Nice thing with the Gleam is you can hot coat it. They say you can do three coats a day, so that’s what I did.

Got one of the inner gunnels glued on tonight. Was going to do both inners, but not enough clamps.

Building the gunwales. Have some nice tight grained Douglas Fir, problem is the boards are only 6’8” long. Anybody ever try multiple scarf joints on a set of gunwales? Thought I’d give it a shot. Got two scarfs per gunwale glued up tonight. I’ll glue up the third set of scarfs tomorrow...

She’s off the forms.

Glass is on.

Seal coat is on.

Beautiful photos! The Green River in UT is one of my bucket list trips. Plan on doing it next year. Welcome aboard.