Jim Dodd

Find some UV resistant varnish and use that. Epoxy is not stable in UV light. If you use epoxy you still have to coat it with varnish.

I don't know the answer to your specific question about varnish vs. epoxy, except to say I don't recall off-hand anyone varnishing the...

One thing that I'm really not sure how to do is keep overlapping the strips as I close the football. I know I've seen people do it but...

Nicely done ! Enjoy ! Jim

Nice little canoe-centered (mostly) walkthrough here for those of us who couldn't attend.

Thanks clemency, for the video share ! I've never been to Canoecopia, and this was a good substitute ! Jim

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...

Makes me recall this thread (or maybe this one) as losing, or destroying, the boat may be my biggest fear. I liked that he was clear...

I spent quite a bit of time upstairs in the boat shop today. I got the strips done but I'll need to modify the set-up for the next...

Or maybe get some help from a chopper a few days later…

You swim and or run after it as far and as fast as you can all the while "dreaming" that you will see it beached around the next corner...

Good one. I have never wanted to do a long trip alone. What happens when you capsize in a rapid and your boat gets away from you.?

You deal with it. It's part of the allure. Alan

Yeah... that appeals to me too. In the past, climbing in the Mont Blanc range, Chamonix, France I became enamored of "tartiflette"...

I agree, a great trip and wonderful photography (cinematography?) I was really keen to watch this as it enabled me to really...