Search results

Been sanding away, thinking I’m ready for varnish. However, I have some dry spots. Mix up some epoxy and do a light fill coat? Fill individual spots with epoxy? Or just go forward with varnish? Here’s a couple photos of my problem areas.

Beautiful boat! The plans for my boat only call for the single thwart, although I could most certainly add another. It would make a great place to put a cup holder for beer.

Thanks Jim! Your seats are beautiful, and the plan is to varnish the cord. I agree the seat is pretty high, it’s 1 inch below the gunwales, and has a 1 inch drop built into the seat frame. I want to try it out, and if it’s not real stable, I’ll drop it another inch.

Construction phase is done. I was going to use cleats to fit the seat, but after hours of frustration,gave up and decided to hang the seat. Built the seat a bit thicker than others, went with 1 1/8 x 7/8 for the frame, as I’m pretty heavy at 260, hope it holds me. I used snow shoe lacing on the...

Beautiful!

Yeah it is crazy what Watford has become, all of western ND for that matter.

i read your trip report on your Missouri River trip. Looks, and sounds amazing. And a trip I would like to do, it’s not far from where I live. However, I was discussing the Little Missouri River, which has its headwaters in Wyoming, then flows through South Dakota, Montana, into North Dakota...

Love hearing your stories on the Little Missouri I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the Badlands doing trail work on the Maah Daah Hey trail, along with biking it. A bit of off roading just to the west of the north unit of the park. Absolutely love the area. Planning on paddling the river from...

Thx! I do have some nice Cherry, thinking of carving a solid paddle.

Quick question for the builders out there. How much varnish and thinner do you guys usually use. I’m about to order some Epifanes, just not sure how much to get.

So excited for spring! I’ve never tripped in a canoe. Planning on a trip in May. Group of 10 going to paddle 110 miles of the Little Missouri River in North Dakota. Very remote area, will be paddling through all three units of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. I have a Bell Yellowstone...

Thanks Jim! I’ve built the thwart. I’ve started on the seat. And thanks for the weep hole reminder. I need to do that! Need to finish the seat, make cleats for it to mount to. I need to sand both the interior and hull, then varnish. For fun tonight I weighed the canoe, with thwart, and the seat...

Decks and gunwales are on. A bit of hand sanding and fiddling in the morning, and the gunwales will get sealed with epoxy.

Outer gunwales are on.

Inner gunwales have been glued on. Feeling like this boat may actually get finished.

Roughing in the inwales, and Cherry decks.

I know this is an old post, but it really was helpful for me. Just copied your jig, and it works well! Thank you!

Love hearing that pine lasted that long! Kind of why I want to try Poplar. Technically it is a hardwood, it’s light, it will be encased in epoxy, so no rot worries, and I’m not planning on beating the crap out of the boat, I think the poplar will survive.

Waiting for epoxy to dry, whipped up a thwart from Cherry.

Not the most popular choice, but going for Poplar for gunnels. Going to sandwich the gunnels, no scuppers. Cherry for thwart, and seat. Seat on cleats. Mini decks of cherry. I have enough cherry, I could do gunnels, but really want to try the poplar.