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Got the hull home.

I've got a long abandoned Kevlar Mad River Malachite hull. It has a gelcoat bottom that might be salvageable, and a couple small tears to patch. The Kevlar cloth on the interior is very dry, and I feel like the hull has gotten "Soft". I was wondering if saturating the interior with resin...

A little late to the conversation, but having shared living space with bears, this reminded me of a bit of bear trivia. We all got along pretty well, but "for the love of God" do not bring any fast food wrappers around or throw them in the trash. If there was McDonalds grease on anything the...

A large percentage of my worldly possessions live in black plastic totes. Trip/activity planning involves finding the tote or totes from the last trip which will have the "mission specific" gear and then tracking down the more general purpose stuff that ended up in other trip boxes. Most of...

I still have the parts to the shed, but the frame lost some paint and gained some rust. I'm going to build a 4x8' tank and soak the frame in oxcylic acid to remove the rust, touch up the paint and then coat the insides of the tubes with linseed oil. I also have a couple extra parts to...

Well bad things happen, and tools were dropped and lay for a year. I'm starting to dig out and decided that I would need a shed to de-rust and refinish the unbuilt metal frame among other delayed projects. I have a second purpose for the 16 footers so I left them long. Gives my shanty a bit of...

This is the the kind of scarf I would try and make on a bench. The Eds canoe scarf looks like it would be do-able on the boat for splicing in a repair. The short bevels would let you cut the joint a little "long" and sneak up on the fit.

I like this joint a lot better than a standard scarf with a feathered edge. I've seen those let go and the idea of catching a sharp edge while paddling makes my hands itch, like my ankles when there's a short handled axe around....

13.5 feet by 40". Most likely spread. Most likely had shear cut down. Most likely need to lose a little more. Lousy glass job. Looks like poly resin and should peel off. Located Kent county Maryland.

Still scratching towards the same goal going on year 3. Have everything set up so I can be on the water in 20 minutes year round, safely, solo, with out worrying the family. Parallel goal is have the fleet in order so that I can take the whole family out, A tandem canoe for me and the boy ...

Back in the stone age, I did a lot of shooting and was apt to have a gun on me to shoot as apposed to ward off any real or imagined threat. That meant a .22 pistol or a short Savage 24c Camper with .22 over .20 gauge. I had a peep set for the .22 and a flip up express sight for the .20 with...

One problem I see with sitting in the bottom is that the side decks don't have the strength to support my weight when getting in and out. Of the 2 hulls one has "crushing damage" on the side decks already so that that one would probably be the candidate for adding structure to. It also was built...

40 lbs feels really light for a 16 foot hull. The fact that they are 30 - 40 years old is kind of a trip also. I havent spent much time working with a double paddle, but depending on how it handles being overloaded a bit, it might be a nice portagible kayak or skinny pack boat.

I measure about 9" deep at including the side decks. The hull has more volume forward. It has a distinct cods head, macrel tail design. Quick measurement looks like my feet will still be in the open cockpit even if the seat is 12-18" forward of "center"

I saved a couple "ocean" rowing shells from a date with the dumpster. They need a bit of glass work, and the drop in rowing rigs and oars will be a signifigant investment, so I'm wondering how they would do as decked canoes. I'm having some technical difficulties getting pictures posted, so...

There are permiable hay tarps available, I think at tractor supply. If you put one of those over a shade cloth you might get the right ballance between protecting or stewing in juices.

I use an relatively obsolete cell phone as a bike computer, with gps navigation and various Bluetooth sensors. The set up is a power hog so I run a bigger power bank and could get 3 days of every thing running pretty easily. The power bank is an Anker product, and the one thing I will do...