Recent content by memaquay

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but for the money you would spend on resin and glass, I would probably use it as a bookshelf, or kindling. It's pretty rough, the hull is hogged, which won't be easy to fix, and with the number of running splits in the hull....well, I would stay away from it.

I'm not sure if any of you have come across these two yet, David is a phot journalist, lives down the road from me in Nipigon. Him and his soon to be wife did an epic 60 day trip all the way to Hudson Bay. He made a video about their journey. I'm not much of a video watcher when it comes to...

Looks like it was dragged behind a vehicle or something, in order to get that one spot worn down with very little damage around it. There have been quite few discussions about skid plates on this site before, those of us who build strippers would generally just use left over glass and regular...

O boy.....I'm not sure if Kevin Callan is warning against this practice or endorsing it, but it is probably one of the worst things anyone could do. He specifically references large groups....black bears seldom bother with large groups, unless its in a park where they are very used to people...

Interesting perspective from a free style paddler. He claims there is no difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical canoes either for seat placement. When I have placed a solo seat close to the centre (3 inches), it seems like there is very little canoe in front of me due to the narrow...

I'm guessing that isn't oak, but cedar. Perhaps the gunwales and trim are oak. Looks like western red cedar for strips.

I don't normally make multi laminates, but I needed an ottertail to round out my demo paddles. Maple shaft, I think it's walnut, and cherry. Got some weird purple wood too, have no idea what it is, but hand planes reaqlly nice.

Some days I long for my missing aluminium canoes. In fact, I know where one of my old ones sits unused in the bush, I might retrieve it this summer. I carried 87 pound grummans for many miles over portages. We had one student who weighed in over 300 and the grumman suited him well. Most of...

I have to get up there sometime soon, sounds absolutely delicious.

I was pretty sure you would know the answer.....that is indeed the flower, thanks for putting a name to it. I wrote a song called "Fire Brings the Life" when I got home.

Tripping down the Kapikotongwa about a month after a forest fire has swept through. On a burnt over port everything was stark, angular and brilliant black and white. Granite boulders that had been covered in vegetation for hundreds of years stuck out like white eggs on a black background. The...

I find if you roll on a thin coat and then tip it off with a foam brush, the varnish rarely runs or sags. I have to admit, my standards are quite low though, I don't even sand between coats now, I just try to get it all done in one day.

I don't think the varnish has much to do with scratch protection, except for maybe how many coats you apply. I've found the biggest difference in depth of scratches depends on the epoxy used. I've found MAS to be quite soft and easily damaged, while System Three and West are fairly tough. I...

Lol Alan, you should see the size of the kid making that one. We've got some giants up here.