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@ThatPaddlingGuy Those supports are just tacked in place currently with hot glue. Fortunately I realized before I attached anything permanently. I'll break them loose and re-glue at the correct height. Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully I'll get some more time for it tomorrow.

Today started well, I sanded the pieces then taped the templates to them and cut them out. I sanded them to fit below the walnut allowing room for the plate and a filet joint up to the walnut. I planed down some bead and cove scraps to and hot glued them in place bead side up on both ends. I...

@stripperguy The plan is to have the top follow along just under the walnut.

It feels like I have been doing nothing but shoveling the driveway here. All that snow made for an amazing deep day at the ski hill though so it's a worthy trade off. Stripper Guy will likely appreciate this picture I took of my daughter showing the conditions. Over a foot of fresh on top of...

@PaddlingPitt I'm in Fort St. John.

I stopped for lunch at the end of the Nahanni Butte winter road on the edge of the Liard last June while tripping on my dual sport. I stared across at the beautiful mountains that my camera couldn't accurately capture the colour of what I could see. Thank you for sharing such a great trip...

I probably had my garage at 65 F for the job. I preheated the shop overnight with the baseboard and 2 space heaters to ensure it was at max temp. I them shut the space heaters off before starting to ensure temperature drop during the job to prevent wood off gassing. It was -8 F here yesterday...

The fill coat helped a fair bit even if you can't tell in the pictures.

When setting up for glassing I used foam cradles out near the stems where the boat is already tough. I didn’t want to risk the hull deforming from it’s own weight and then me glassing it permanently to that shape. I masked off the edges and pre-laid the glass. I would just pull it back to wet...

Stripperguy, I really appreciate you taking the time to dig out those pictures. They help a lot. Mem, you keep calling your work butchery but it looks very nice to me. Also how many canoes have you built now? The more I read on here researching various models it seems you have built that one...

Thanks for all that guys. I didn't sand my ends with the intention of using float tanks. I'll have to think about it.

Gamma, the masking is for the fillet joint. I find it helps keep the mess to a minimum but more importantly it acts as a guide to get a uniform width joint. I made the joint slightly wider in the cockpit and tapered it towards the ends. I also added a little filler at the ends where the...

Got the fillet joints done and the seal coat completed. I used my wife's icing bags and the disposable wooden spoon again for the fillets. I only mixed up 2 pumps of epoxy this time instead of 3 when doing the seal coat. It allowed me to get it on thinner by getting it all on before the pot...

So I was finishing up the last of the inside sanding yesterday. I was moving the boat around and heard a loud crack as some glue let go on the bottom. I quickly moved the foam supports out to the ends and put the center from back in. Lesson learned, don’t move it with a form in place and get a...

TPG, I think only the top couple of inches of stem will be exposed after I put in the float tanks. Just trying to do what I can to keep the weight down but yes that's a crappy spot to work in. As for the S glass over dark wood here's an example of a couple of layers over walnut. Up close you...

My experience with the S glass is that it shows more "silver fleck" as well as the weave when you get up close. Also when using multiple layers it shows a fair bit more than E glass. Clear enough though and fine for our build purposes as Cruiser said. It does matter on the dark woods where...

That is a Veritas miniature shoulder plane. I bought it to use with Nick Schade's Robo-bevel but I have been using it a lot since Scratchypants suggested using it outside of the Robo-bevel. It's a pretty handy little tool for slow wood removal. It can work in a concave surface providing it's...

I have a question about glassing if anyone's done this. I'd like to lay a 5' piece of glass into the cockpit and a little in the stems. Put it in with a squeegee and no fill coat. Leave it overnight or longer, rough sand for mechanical bond, vacuum then do a full length layer of glass over...

Welcome Farback, good luck with your build. I planed down the stern stem today then did a little grinding with a burr and a stone. I want to round out the stems so the glass lays in there nicely without me having to add an epoxy fillet joint. It will take a little more work yet.

I only got a little done today. I had to fix our snowblower since no one likes shoveling. I planed down the bow stem and really should have started in the stern. Get it figured it out in a less obvious spot. I started with my 6" plane but that made a few contact lines in the cedar. I...