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No Title Having cut down the shear and glassed the inside I added my gunnels. I'd hoped to use spruce for the gunnels to cut weight but, holy cow, spruce is really, really expensive. Switched to ash. Made scuppered gunnels because I’d always wanted them, they look great, and they provide...

No Title Having sanded, filled and sanded again, fiberglassing went well. I’ve worked with glass and epoxy in the past. I used 6oz glass and West System epoxy. I put a 5” strip along the keel and up around the ends, a football on the bottom and around the bilges, and then a full sheet over...

No Title The trickiest part of laying the strips was definitely the ends, where the strips come together, especially as the end curves from the nose/tail to the bottom. About half way through I had one of those great “doh!” head slap moments when I realized that my bench sander was a perfect...

No Title I decided to build stemless, ala Gilpatrick, and to just butt join my strips instead of spending time with scarf joints. As I said, I wasn’t looking to build beautiful, just functional. Having modified the forms from the original Malecite, I wasn’t sure how the end forms would fit...

This summer I completed my first canoe build from scratch. As a recent member to the forum and a proud boat-papa I have to share my build process. This will be a bit of a dump as I have already completed the build. I’m no one's idea of a precise or finicky wood worker so I quickly latched...

I just finished my first hull from scratch this summer and I'll second Boatman53's comment, and add that my issue arose from not accounting for the taller angle of the strip joint at the ends where the strips come together at a greater angle. This added 1/2 inch to those joins and thus reduced...

Hi all, I paddle out of Portland, OR; a mix of lakes and rivers, small and large, anything from class II down. My favorite is large water, especially the mighty Columbia river through the Gorge. I've done some trips on the Willamette and canoe camped on some of our large and lovely wilderness...