Recent content by Ianc

Here are a couple of pix. Not a great job, but it's a lot better than it was. The bow seat was broken - the tenons on one side had parted, and one of the tenons on the other side had broken, so I glued the tenons back in place and made two T shaped gussets out of 6 mm ply for the other side and...

The boat is ready to take to the water, and I have a couple of lessons to pass on. I chipped out all the crazed gel coat that would come, and feathered the edges. Cleaned the injured areas, wet them with West epoxy using 207 hardener, put on cloth with a slight overlap and wet it out, sanded the...

Thank you very much. I've set as my avatar the closest I can come to a canoe-related pic: me on the wire of a 5o5, when I was much younger. Attached are pix of some of the injuries to the canoe.

Last autumn, the seasonal gales brought a Bluewater Saugeen 16-6 to the beach in front of my house on Saanich Inlet, just north of Victoria B.C. I put it up on all the social media, and contacted the local clubs, but no-one has claimed it, and I can understand why, even if they did lose it and...