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Since you're looking for a strategy I'll just mention that if you're cute and enthusiastic you don't need to do a darn thing other than...

I bit the bullet, and purchased two BV500 Bear Vaults. A tricky lock feature, easy, once you learn the trick. I really like, as It...

Start with a Kevlar copy of your favorite canoe. See my last build thread . 🥹 Then take a few College boys, and one College girl ...

I kept trying to marry a man who would take the extra load and heavy canoe. ;) But no luck. I can see I’m out of luck with this bunch...

The Little Egret canoe, already has rather large flotation chambers, and the paddler, has a good life jacket, that keeps him high above...

The Boston Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) was famous for decades for lashing two 6'x2" planks of ethafoam under the...

Another vote for Gorilla Wood Glue. It dries hard and sands well. I could even break off the dried beads of glue on the inside hull with...

Thanks, but I'm more on the natural side. I have thought of using Polyester Camo cloth, on a canoe though. Bought some, but that's as...

Just to throw another item in. Hobby Lobby has these glue applicators, that I love. When not applying glue, I keep the cap on, and...

I used Gorilla wood glue on my first two and Titebond II for the tie dye build. I liked the Gorilla glue better as it seemed to set a...

Open time on the above three, is fine, for me. The ability of a glue staying where I put it, without running off, is important to me...

I would suggest that the reason Gorilla glue sands easier, is that observation it dries hard. It is much easier to sand something that...

Most definitely ! My second choice would be the Gorilla glue.

Jim, if the prices were equal, you would use Elmer's Max instead of Gorilla Wood for your strips?