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I would agree with Gamma that webbing isn't inferior, but I'd consider it overkill for the purpose. Costs more if you don't already have it on hand and weighs more after it's installed, but neither of those may be a big deal to you. As to the strength, the weak point in the system is likely the...

I would agree with Alan here. It's like the "monolithic pour" that concrete workers like to do as the final product (structure) is stronger that way. It's usually not super evident in a canoe, but still has effect. Put as many layers as you can down and get them wet out at the same time or...

I'd agree with jdeerfoot. Get anything cheap to get on the water with the new boat, and trade paddles around with other paddlers if you can just for short trials to get some feel as to what you might want in material, length, grip, etc. I paddle mostly with 48-inch Wenonah bent shafts these...

Story of my life, too little (or too much), too late. Not putting the selvage (factory) edge down in my experience can reduce that quite a bit, but maybe it takes practice. I'd built quite a few boats by that time. The peelply down first would have been a partial layer, too, and that would...

I think you're overbuilding it a bit if you wanted a light boat, but if it's for the "kids" (and their kids?), you might want it that way anyway. One thing you could do to maybe make the job a little easier is put the Kevlar along the sides of the boat as the first layer, extending so that it...

Alan, Are you using the stripper as a plug to form a female mold over it and then take boats out of the mold? Or will you lay up the base layers of the hull as a "slip boat" off the exterior of the stripper and then add the inside layers, like the foam core and Kevlar over that after taking...

LP, I think that "waxy film" detail is just a descriptive term the Gougeon's use for their WEST System weakness as there should be no true wax involved. I think further applications of their product would even stick, though the blush would still show as that foggy, almost paraffin-looking and...

Nope, that happens to polyester resin layups that use the wax to exclude air to allow a complete cure. Most canoe laminaters who use polyester might use the no-wax equivalent to allow an interior gelcoat or paint to stick better. Polyester stays sticky for a long time (years?), though will cure...

In the early 1970s I worked at a canoe shop in Chicago, and a couple engineering students came in looking for design info. (This event has been around that long!) As I remember, the maximum length specified then was 14 feet and I seem to also remember that it was specified as "ferrocement"...

I do the same, Wenonah Odyssey 18-6 stern forward on a Dodge Grand Caravan because the sheerline puts the stern a bit higher for a better view from under the boat -- I can more easily see stoplights and such. With the bow forward, the boat hangs lower and I can't see as well. I don't care...

Went out of bounds, sorry about that Glenn.

Them Connecticut Yankees? < huge grin >

Yup, there's always doomers and gloomers everywhere. Don't sweat it Robin, you won't be missing anything at all. Nope, nuthin'! < GRIN > (that thing means it's a joke, so the rest of you watch away!)

Agree with yknpdlr. Those wanting to really see it try to get into the totality zone if at all possible. My house was within it for the 2017 eclipse, but only for 19 seconds worth, so we drove south to a friends house about 20 miles and got about a minute and forty-five seconds worth out of a...

Okay, thanks, Scoutergriz. It's been many a year since I've done it. I haven't researched this recently.

We do have ticks on our side of the mountains (west of the Oregon Cascades) but they're not real common. They're much more noticeable east of the mountains. What I've done the few times I or a pet has had a tick is to glob on some Vaseline, sealing it well all around. The critter can't breathe...

You could see if they're up to toting a palanquin (with you in it)! < G >

Some friends of mine up in Seattle, Matt and Cam Broze of Mariner Kayaks (no longer in business), designed and sold their own line of single kayaks. They refused to have anything to do with doubles becase they considered them divorce boats. I told them they aren't divorce boats for everyone...

If so, they'll probably start limiting BYO boats (make that "prohibiting?") and allow a concessionaire to rent them for more park income. If interested, get yours in the water before they do.

My wife and I were there maybe 10 years ago now, and we could have then, after some serious rain they'd had. We figured if we pussled the canoe off the truck that we'd get hassled for it in some way, so didn't bother. Another time in 1998 we could have done so also, but didn't have a boat...