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Given the good advice I have received here on this build, thought I would give an update before hanging up my sander for the winter (just too cold now for what I have left to do, and I have to make room in my garage for actual cars before the snow flies). Finished the structural stuff (added...

Thanks for this guys. Jim, right now I can only aspire to the level of precision and, well, beauty of the boats you produce. I am working on it but still have quite a ways to go. I find it interesting that the capped approach you use will get virtually identical results as a one-piece design...

Hi - after three weeks of mangling several pieces of perfectly good cedar and about half of a 5x18 board of ash, I finally have a serviceable set of one-piece ash gunnels ready to install on my canoe (wanted cedar for its lighter weight but finally bit the bullet on ash, which will cost me over...

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Thanks for these good points, and believe me I am not reading any of this as being critical. But don't get me wrong, I am still very happy with this boat. Might turn out to be a little heavier than I had hoped, but will still be on the light side and, based on your comments stripperguy, it looks...

Finished inside fibreglass. I just weighed it after completing all of the sanding, outside and in - a plump 28.4 pounds (per my digital bathroom scale). Up from 22.5 pounds in my original post, meaning almost six pounds of fibreglass and resin for the interior (including a generous football...

Just to close the loop on this - put the full inside glass on today. Went pretty well, thanks in large part to the tips received here, by far the most important of which was to spend a lot of time monitoring and fixing issues before they become problems. Not perfect though, and there was still...

Thanks stripperguy - I laid a bias piece over the stems at the same time as I glassed the footbal a few days ago. After feathering the edges yesterday, now I just have the carry the full layer along the sides of the stems only to just cover the seam of those pieces (about 3-4 inches out from the...

PS - Barry, that is exactly what I will be doing - thanks

Thanks for these additional points. Just finished sanding (again) and setting up the cloth to do the full inside glass starting tomorrow am, and will definitely take on this advice. On pre-coating, I don't have enough experience to have a firm opinion but I do note that when I filled the staple...

Yes, memaquay makes a good point - no staple holes do not translate into no bubble problems. They will show up outside the staple areas as well. As I said, I was able to squeegee most out (could actually hear them pop as I went, like bubble wrap in some places along the staple lines), but the...

Correction - looks like the second photo is the one with the bubble coming through the pre-coat up higher on the hull

Yeah, looks like I will just live with it - kind of what I figured but had to ask, thanks all for your feedback. Funny thing Jim, I was reading your thread last night on your Pearl build, and somewhere in there you wrote that you had decided not to do a pre-coat before glassing, but then next...

So just finished laying up the inside football on my cedar strip canoe - main inside layer yet to come. It's my first build, and I filled the staple holes in the outside before glassing, as (despite everything I read) I thought I could camouflage them a bit. While I now have sort of beige staple...

Hi - thanks for sharing your suggestions and expertise on this. Reading the amazing build links you guys have created and looking at the techniques employed is at first a bit overwhelming, but then I realize that it doesn't really require a lot of high-tech equipment and materials, just...

Hi all. New to this forum and also new to canoe building. Been a lot of fun so far - started this in mid July with a handful of 16 foot decking boards from Home Depot and just finished glassing the outside and flipped it today to start on the interior. It is a 15 foot Ashes Solo Day, with 3/16...