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I'm guessing due to the supply and demand issues as of late I am having trouble finding a bucket seat I want to put in my Rob Roy. The butt pad that is currently in it is a hair to low and I'd like to upgrade. If any of you out there that have a spare laying around I'd be willing to take it...

Ran across this movie today while waiting for resin to dry. It's on Tubi which is free online streaming movies: https://tubitv.com/home. Lots of hardships and upstream which I've done in the past but never at this level. Link to the movie...

After 25 years or so of rebuilding other peoples canoes and yes a kayak if I'm allowed to use that word here I've decided to call it quits. Since I rebuilt my shop so it's heated, about 4 years now, I have rebuilt 11 boats in 3 and half years, basically a none stop production line. I've found...

After a year or more of looking at the Traveler, a boat I knew I wouldn't paddle much I put it up for free. Today Goonstroke showed up and after an bit o' time we got 5 thwarts in it as the gunwales were gone an he took off back to his place in Maine. We had a good chat and I wished him luck...

I have a MR Traveler that I know I won't be working on so want to give it away for FREE to someone with more courage than I have to tackle it. I'm in Penacook, NH. Here's some pics of the hull, which for it's age is in good shape, 1989. It has an, I'm assuming, original wooden sliding seat...

This is from a while back when I was new to rebuilding canoes so there was a lot of learning going on, a lot of swearing going on and more than one can of liquid courage to get through the task. It's a long write up so will add sections at a time...

This is a test

Since I had reasonable success with Kydex on one of the last rebuilds I really wanted a new deck plate for the Bell Rob Roy, my go to boat. I used the first wooden deck I built as a plug but was lazy and didn't add 3/4" pieces on the sides going vertical to help form the Kydex. I figure when I...

Looks like one of the most iconic canoes is not going to be produced anymore. I'm glad I own two of them, selling one, and have come to love this hull over almost twenty years of paddling it! https://www.newburykayak.com/blog/20...river-malecite

Adirondack/Stowe Canoe For Sale 09-21-2019, 02:23 PM Putting this back up again as I've posted elsewhere. Need to make some room in the barn and shop! Funny how all those areas fill up quick when you collect canoes! I've decided that this boat I rebuilt is not one I'm going to paddle much...

I didn't want to hijack McCrea's post on making a Kydex Deck Plate Template so am starting a new thread on this. I did start the whole process and so far considering I've never seen this stuff before last weekend it's going much better then I thought it would. Since I bought a 2x4 sheet of it I...

Saw this today and hope that the business still stays going. Sad to hear/read...

So a while back I picked up a MR Traveler basically for free and after stripping the gunwales, seats and thwarts off I'm left with a puzzle. The shear line in the middle of the boat has an outside flare to it! Is that a design feature I ask as I scratch my head or something else? Never seen...

OK, a friends MRE I'm working gave me 3 brand new packages of 4" cloth for the repair. Of course they sat on my bench for a long spell and when I cleaned it off to make room for other stuff I put them in a "safe" place, ya know that place where you know exactly where it is. That never works...

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I saw this on CL today and thought I'd post here in case someone is interested. The price sure as heck seems pretty fair! https://nh.craigslist.org/boa/d/nashua-20ft-wood-canvas-sailing-canoe/7199038787.html

Due to political postings under the thread "Keeping Busy At Home" by Robin I needed to delete what I thought was just the post but instead I deleted the entire thread which was a great thread about Robin's new start in Maine. This was my mistake to address an issue that should not have been...

Hi All, I have an important announcement to make concerning the site. For the last going on four years I have had the privilege of running this place, herding a bunch of mad but informed and gifted paddlers. Well, with the events of today things have changed for me and in a nutshell work is...

Hello All, It's been a long five days of withdrawal from our board. I came back from a long earned North Maine Woods retreat for a week to find on Sat morning we were hacked again. So much for the last two days of vacation. In a nutshell I contacted the IT guy who started working his magic which...

Came from parts unknown with another hull to fix. All standard stuff, gunwales, seats, thwarts. Nothing hard but time consuming which is good these days. Only gripe is I cannot find a HIN on this hull. A MR...Explorer from the VT days so I know it's old school. The decks are large at 27"...