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Yep, got them too. Fruit is just starting to come in now around here. Much of it is out of reach without equipment.

Really hard to pick a single favorite for me as well. Favorite for what purpose? Red Oak for utility builds: Good strength:mass:volume ratios, straight grain and fairly easy to work, cheap. (It's practically a weed around here.) Hard Maple for glassy hard work surfaces. Butcher Block, hand...

This is what I've gone with, as well. Do keep in mind that these are usually "Type V" special-purpose devices. Mine only meets legal requirements if I'm actually wearing it. (I tend to sink, so I'm wearing 100% of the time anyway.)

This... actually doesn't look as bad as I'd thought. Most of the more visible bits of the damage seem to be to the gel-coat Weave on the structural cloth seems to be mostly intact - not torn through. Aramid is tough. I seems to be laying fair, so no need to splint it in place while...

Like @Alan Gage said, Epoxy sticks to pretty much anything except Polyethylene. It's also easily available in smaller quantities if you don't already have vinyl ester resin around. I also would use basic 6oz E-glass. Don't see a reason to spring for the S-glass in this context. Also would...

Several of your photos aren't showing up...

Fully wet out glass will be water-impervious, at least unless it gets bent enough to break some of the fibers away from the epoxy; Then you might get some weep holes. (This generally only happens when it gets hit hard enough to come close to delaminating things.) Ideally, wet out glass (without...

As a counterpoint/dissenting opinion, I'd ask you to consider your use conditions. Many of the areas that I canoe have a very fine, gritty sand/silt combo. It sticks in every little dimple in that open weave, and you can't avoid tracking it into the canoe. An alternative might be to use...

Maybe a pair of heavy pliers? I've webbed seats from scratch before. You do need to apply a good amount of force - hand grip won't cut it.

Crickets? Well... I've never worked with this stuff, so please take what I say with an appropriate level of seasoning. I'm not too worried about the scuffs - though they appear to be more than handling marks! Scuffs in the gelcoat will probably buff out, or can be filled and buffed with some...

A user on one of the other boatbuilding forums taglines as "It's really rather difficult to build an ugly wooden boat." I've done the shear-following thing on all of my strip builds as well, and probably would need to learn otherwise if I do another one. For fairing, I think the important part...

I've had a similar failure under a seat cleat. (Similar to what's shown in This post) In my case, I think it was due to a sharply applied peel load that flexed the hull. I've only just repaired that one a few weeks ago, so take the following with a grain of salt. I'd probably approach the...

That looks good enough that I've bookmarked the recipe. Did you actually use salmon, or some other species?

I must applaud your choice of beverage, sir! I must confess that, in the interests of drinking as much of the stuff as I'd like, I'm thinking about taking a second try at brewing it myself. The little buggers do tend to add up. I think that build is going to look just fine. Simple and to-the-point.

IDK, I work phone customer service, and the ways that people can mess up numbers - familiar numbers, like their own phone or ZIP - in low-stress contexts has to be experienced to be believed, plus all the issues with audio distortion. I would not want to try to get my customers to be precise...

I was thinking that the original picture looked more like "rail" than "road". There would probably have been more bridge on the shore-side of that... pileing?... not really an abutment. It looks like at least 3, maybe 4 sections in the overhead.

Have you looked at the area on satellite overheads?

Ohh... Looking forward to it. Was this the hull that was being designed last time I was playing with a solo design?

I'll say! Some of the commercially available stuff is half or more added sugar by weight.

I might have a look, when they're back in operation. I've found I have a liking for dried blueberries, which are not cheap around here. I'm primarily targeting things that would work well in a granola.