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Here are the Safety Data Sheets for BioPoxy 36 resin and hardener, showing the Canadian manufacturer and U.S. supplier: Resin - Main ingredients are phenols and cashew products, and only has a warning for possible allergic skin reaction Hardener - Main ingredient is formaldehyde, and has...

Thanks so much for the history and pictures, Murat. I note that the 1923 weights are significantly less than the 2025 weights for every length canoe. I know things could be accurately weighed in 1923, so what construction factors could account for this disparity (assuming all the listed...

I know you feel guilty using Google, but it readily finds many sites with info and selling BioPoxy 36. Here's one: https://atlanta-tables.com/ecopoxy/biopoxy-36/

Karin, I missed your recent posts in this thread. I'll be happy to give you unlimited editing permission to go back and insert the photos into your old posts where they belong. Several other members have done this. DM me if and when you want to do this.

Thanks. I'm serious. I'd like a lightweight beavertail to give a little more power than my Bruce Smith ottertail, I've always been curious about sassafras, and I'd value something made by a member of this forum.

"18’6″ MacKenzie will carry 1400 lbs with 7″ of freeboard." That would work.

Can you explain this. Is vinylester somehow more dangerous and subject to regulation than epoxy?

This is epoxy or vinylester? I'm still looking for a price comparison to vinylester.

Interesting. So, the only way to prevent all of this is to turn off the cell phone. I used to do that in my early cell phone days. I'd only turn it on when I needed to make a call when out of the house. I affirmatively didn't want to be bothered by receiving phone calls. After all, I had already...

That's a good way to look at it. And if you slightly prefer some non-extreme tumblehome or flare, for example, that preference may be outweighed for your trip application (type of water, weight of load) by some other spec such as capacity, center depth/freeboard, waterline width, stability feel...

Nikon, if you're thinking of a canoe to paddle rivers way up in the remote Yukon again, I personally would feel a lot more secure in a Royalex canoe than a composite version of the same model. The Royalex will be safer protection against pins and wraps, it will hold up better when bumping or...

I'm so naive and ignorant about smart phones that I never knew any of this. Can I stop this tracking if I turn off the GPS location function on my phone? The built-in navigation system in my car can show traffic flow patterns if I pay for that option via my Sirius satellite radio subscription...

Steve, where can Mason's demonstration be found?

That would be 5.7 liters, and if you go a bit over that, let's call it 6 liters. According to the Ecopoxy site, 6 liters of FlowCast cost $180 USD. Now I just need someone to compute how much 6 liters of a decent canoe-building epoxy and vinylester would cost.

The benefit is $600 more revenue per boat for Swift. Oh, the supposed benefit for the customer? Stronger hull. Bill Swift and Matt Steffler demonstrate the standard "hybrid epoxy-vinylester" resin (which they later just call vinylester) vs. the new $600 epoxy resin using force gauge...

What I meant was simply a general rule that tumblehomed canoes are likely to be somewhat less seaworthy in big waves (i.e., wetter) than straight-sided or flared canoes. That doesn't mean I would choose or prefer a given canoe solely on the basis of side shape or big wave performance. My...

Alan (or anyone), could you estimate how many liters of epoxy it would take to do a hull. I'm trying to understand how justifiable Swift's up-charge of $600 is for epoxy. In addition, I've read it's harder or takes longer to do a hull with epoxy than vinylester or polyester resin. For us...

Neither does mine. But she reads the site. (Hi, maggie!)