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Nope, no fork. I figure if I need to impale some food I could use a knife or a stick but I haven't had to resort to that yet. Alan

I'm a dedicated spoon man myself. I haven't run into anything on a trip I can't with one yet. Never been impressed with sporks but I think the only ones I've used have been from fast food chains. Alan

Just so you're clear the person you're e-mailing is not the person who made that response. They were just quoting what they found on the CLC website.

Here's a shot from the bottom with the waterline shaded in white. Bow is to the right as you're looking at it. Bloodvein below by Alan, on Flickr Alan

The shape of the sheer and shape of the waterline are radically different so while it looks like a weight forward fat little piggy from above it is much more normal at the water line. Since I used a sliding seat placement wasn't quite so important. If I remember correctly when slid full forward...

I've also become a fan of hanging seats from the gunwales. It's just so quick and easy with no fiddly-fartin' around. Raising or lowering is just a matter of making a different set of drops. Swapping out seats is easy. Adding an extra thwart on account of it is very little work or weight. Alan

I think you would be fine stopping at 40 grit as long as strip edges were smooth and there were no other large dips, humps, deformities that might cause the fiberglass to bridge. I think the aesthetics would suffer (ROS scratches would be "filled" with epoxy but likely still show) but that may...

I was part of a forum for automotive professionals about 25 years ago and they had a similar forum. The 'open' forum was eventually shut down because, despite having nothing to do with the intent of the site, it by far created the most hard feelings between members and caused the most work and...

I've never had any luck converting a kayaker to canoeing. I assume they think I'm just as nuts as I think they are. Oh well. I think most of them are just out there to be on the water and don't have a real desire to learn to paddle a canoe with a single blade, even if they do struggle in their...

Sick. Love the logo. Super impressed you can draw that well period, let alone upside down! Alan

I assume you've seen this thread: https://www.canoetripping.net/threads/cl-find.80857/#post-81114

And it's a lucky thing for all of us that you stepped up and did so! Alan

You can redeem them at the prize counter. You have enough for a pencil. :) Alan

I've never seen that to be the case. Usually, since the filler is being scraped back off aggressively with a flexible squeegee, it doesn't really fill those low spots in anyway. If you were using it as a fairing compound then, yes, it might look a little funny where it filled in those low spots...

Looking great. Can't wait to see it glassed. I use thickened epoxy to fill any gaps, usually after the 2nd pass of rough sanding. I used to spot fill the gaps but the last couple times I just started putting a skim coat to the entire hull (doesn't take much time or epoxy). I use a squeegee to...

Skin on frame. Likely home built. Much more common construction method for kayaks than canoes. I believe a couple of our members use them almost exclusively and maybe even posted a build thread. The skin is, I believe, usually dacron. Alan

No real shenanigans, just another attempted Ai invasion. I get a kick out of how they give such literal answers. Alan

Welcome to the website! Allow me to show you how the ban button works. Alan

Your experience paddling a solo canoe is similar to what most of us experienced when starting out. You can read and read until you're blue in the face trying to figure out what's the perfect hull for you but until you spend a lot of hours in a solo and gain quite a bit of experience it's really...

I'm not sure if Starlight is the same as the KevLight layup of the olden days but I had a Kevlight Bell Magic back in the day and put on thousands of lake and river miles. Hit a lot of things and drug over plenty of logs, rocks, and gravel bars. It got plenty of scratches and the gel coat was...