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I have a second old (really old) fiberglass canoe. From what I can tell, it is a Bee Craft built in the mid-70s. Construction is the thick fiberglass woven matting with chop glass blown on top to smooth it out. It lived a hard life at a canoe rental company until I liberated it in '98. The...

I have finally gotten all the pieces and have been sanding for a couple days. This is an older canoe of unknown make. It is incredibly light and I have a feeling may be kevlar. How do I tell? I know it has a layer of fiberglass sheet all along the bottom (kind of like a skid plate) and it...

Hope to wrap up paint this week and put on the gunnels this weekend. I just don’t recall the screw spacing for the gunnels. I called Old Town and the lady there said “oh, about every 3-inches”. I have read anywhere from 4-6 inches. Looking for some advice.

Rebuilding an old fiberglass canoe. The canoe had been used pretty hard and had hull damage (the fiberglass repair went well). In the areas of the hull damage, the gunnels were significantly bent. I found some nice vinyl replacement gunnels and they seem to have installed nicely. This leaves...