Cruiser

The post was more about using a glues properties to your own advantage and that for softwood like cedar almost any glue is going to be...

Anyone with experience with other "express" glues is welcome to mention which ones. Good news about the laminations I made with...

I could post new picks or just re use what I posted 2 builds ago, if you go down 15 pics in this post, there are pics of glue in the...

Personally, I run the inside glass close to the V and call it a day. The whole area is sealed with epoxy anyway so it is waterproof, the...

You'll find lots of things like that. As a first time builder many things won't make sense and you will often be bewildered by the...

The coats are so thin that I've never noticed any sort of clouding or haze. But, as I'm sure you're aware, we have different tolerances...

I would worry that the thickening agent might cloud the epoxy, so I guess this would have to be consideration for impact on the final...

In the last build, I used a seal coat and actually took several weights and determined that the seal coat resulted in a ~1 pound...

Dave, I used 3/8" cherry gunnels on my Freedom 17, which is arguably the same class of boat you are building and those are more than...

Dave, I posted this link from Laughing Loon in my last build. Rob Mack is giving what amounts to a treatise on epoxy use and...

I didn't check it as thoroughly as I should have Glen, Nick doesn't list the value anywhere and Google initially gave me the 14.5", then...

The amidships depth of this model is 14.5" and I figured shaving some off of that wouldn't be too impactful overall. I totally agree...

Over the last few canoes I have been building weight models for my canoes, to determine if my weight goals were attainable and what my...

It's beer o'clock

Dave, this is a first build, don't make it complicated by trying to overthink the whole process. There is a tendency , on the first...