Recent content by Boatman53

It’s worth the trip Al. Jim I’m told but haven’t confirmed it yet but I heard they are both going to be at the WCHA assembly next month.

Welcome to the campfire Redmaple. Jim

Just watched it, they are just the nicest people I know. Jim

Thanks Benson. Jim

I build a guideboat with a sliding seat and was afraid the boat would rock back and forth with the weight shifting (it was a short 13’ boat) but it wasn’t a problem. I enjoyed the sliding seat but don’t want one in my Hornbeck. Also for the uninitiated the oar handles cross in the middle, one...

I agree with Yknp on the boat being heavy, but I have never rowed one (yet). I found one of his boats on the beach and salvaged it and it is sitting on my rack waiting for new woodwork. Even with most of the wood rotting or missing it was a heavy boat and without the structural woodwork it was...

Here is another pic. I do love that little boat. And it is not heavy. I think Hornbeck made this one in the 70’s maybe. When I was there two years ago buying a canoe I tried to get them to give me an idea of age but they couldn’t. There are no hull numbers on the boat to go by either so it has...

Ok, I just ate breakfast but now I’m hungry again. Jim

Call them up they are there to help. Jim

I built a cedar strip Adirondack Guideboat using West System epoxy for an older customer and that boat literally sat on saw horses on the shore of the lake in full sun from May to September. Every year I would sand it and give it a fresh coat of varnish. That was its life for twenty years and it...

Yup I’ve made them a couple times, mostly when my adult children join me. They ate it up but it was a bannock crust made first (that’s easy and no yeast waiting to rise) then add the toppings. Jim

The company ended a far cry from what it used to be. Sad. Jim

Having second thoughts on the last pic being in the ADK’s . Here are some more but with a post card from Maine. The pic with the fish has what looks like a Rangeley Lake boat tied to the dock. Looks like a nice campsite with the fly and kitchen setup. And the postcard. With a 1958...

I found this one going through old family photos. I’m not sure exactly who the people are but I am sure I’m related to at least one of them. Location is also unknown but possibly the ADK’s as we have other photos from there. Jim

Or you could cut some slightly oversized disc of a closed cell foam say 2” thick, oversized so it will stay where you put it. Then push three or four down the tube at various intervals, say dividing it into 1/4’s or ideally midway between the vibration nodes. It would only add a few ounces and...