Recent content by stripperguy

I still have one of the two first two bent shafts paddles that I bought in 1978? The pair was clearanced from a local shop (Andy’s Sporting Goods) at a sort of indoor yard sale at RPI. They had Al Camp labels on them, $25 each. I still have the two similar paddles that I built in 1982, although...

Those laminated graphics look great!! I assume you'll epoxy those in place and glass all the joints? As I mentioned before, out of an abundance of paranoia, I glass the inside of the bulkhead to hull joint. I also epoxy in place a couple cleats to support the deck to hull interface. Those decks...

It does look nice... Are you planning to glass the inside of the deck too?

Oops, BC is back country skiing I can only wish to ski in British Columbia I’m in New York State, all around there are many failed ski areas, most went out of business in the ‘80’s due to lack of natural snow and the rising costs of insurance. Plenty of good skiing in southern and central...

Wait!! Where are the trees?? How do you know where the trails are? haha That looks fantastic. Just curious, do you have AT bindings and boots? Or telemark? Over here, tele skiers are decidely in the minority, most BC skiers I see have AT bidings, as do I. Lastly, that snow looks a little thick...

I skied lift served today at Gore Mt in the ADK’s, it was only OK. Skied this past Sunday at Hogback Mt in VT, they went out of business in 1986, but much of the infrastructure survives. Kinda like skiing through a museum…

What height will the decks be in relation to the gunwales? I like the way you're stripping, with the fasteners just outside of the future deck/bulkhead...clever. As far as those snow conditions, I am truly jealous. I BC skied yesterday at a defunct downhill area (Hogback Mt in VT). Barely 30"...

Mem, That was hurricane damage from a Ft. Pierce, Florida original owner. I spoke with the previous owner, and he swore that was from some tree limbs. There was some minor wall and floor water damage, not related to those holes. I found a shop near there to tow it out of the storage lot (fees...

OK,OK, I talked about this stuff in my post, but never linked any pics... Here's my CJ Here's a couple motorhomes that I've rebuilt from insurance wrecks Here's my CRV that was a hard passenger side hit... Enough of these wrecks, here's a few pics of my ski tracks (I BC ski alone...

I grew up hunting, fishing, paddling and camping in the ADK's with my father and uncles. The hunting was OK, I was too young to carry but always enjoyed the woods. Fishing was like a death march for me, but the paddling and camping were fantastic. By the time I was 14, I was busy with work and...

Well, I just went out to the garage to measure the decks and bulkheads in my carbon copy Kite. Haha, the trick's on me!! I don't have any decks or bulkheads. Goes to show you how much I've paddled this past season...Don't even know my own boat!! Anyway, I looked back on build photos of my...

Mr Big, My woodstrip Kite is tucked away in a storage trailer, but my carbon copy is in the garage...I'll measure the decks and bulkheads on that one shortly.

If after you get the hull in water, and you have a lot of oil canning, you can always add that 1/2 layer. For a solo, I prefer a pedestal mounted seat. Other seats I mount to cleats that are epoxied to the hull, sometimes with added glass reinforcement

On a slight tangent...does anyone remember those 18'6" all aluminum competition cruisers? I think they were Beaver River something or other. This would be in the late 70's or early 80's. IIRC, there was even a special class just for them in the General Clinton race. I was surprised that they...

I used to bring my Nikon FM on all wilderness trips....that was an all mechanical, all manual 35mm film SLR. I always shot Ektachrome 100 that I developed myself. In 2002?, I moved to the digital world with a Nikon D80. I was pretty happy with that for a while, then upgraded to a Nikon D7200...