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I’m about 2 hours from Spooner. I’ve been wanting to check out that museum for a few years now, but never made it up there. I would assume they are closed for the time being, but if they reopen I would really like to visit it.

Not sure why I have the 900 epoxy. When I started the build, I bought West system epoxy, but only finished the outside before my project came to a stand still. In the mean time, I used up most of the epoxy I had on hand, so I ordered the Raka to finish the canoe. This was based on your...

Jim, I used too much hardener. Should have been 2:1 epoxy. I used 2:1 hardener. But calling Raka is probably a good idea. I’m assuming they have seen this before. I mean I can’t be the only “bonehead” out there. Alan, doubling down seems risky, but is probably my best option. If all else...

In my haste to apply a seal coat to the inside of my canoe prior to fiberglassing, I mixed up the epoxy mixture. I am using Raka 900 epoxy with 350 Hardener. It has now been several weeks since I rolled on the epoxy, and as you’ve guessed it, it has not hardened. It is about 95% dry to the...

This looks absolute amazing.

Yeah I suppose doing it horizontally and letting the bead and cove do the contour would make the most sense and yes it’s symmetrical. thanks

Did you put anything between the shell of the flotation chamber and the inside hull to achieve the flotation or is just the air between the space enough? Would a solid foam block be better or unnecessary? I really like the shape of this, and being 270# and inexperienced at canoeing, I think...

Ahh yeah they do look pretty simple to build. Reading through some of these older posts, I’m not sure there is anything that you haven’t thought of. Truly a great resource to have, and I’m sure you’ve saved a lot of headaches to many frustrated builders.

Jim, where did you get those dragon teeth? They look incredibly handy and can’t seem to find any online anywhere.

Just wanted to give a quick update. I finally got a chance to get back to the canoe project! Ended up sanding down the outside again and putting on another coat of epoxy. Went back and forth if I should do it or not and finally decided Imto do it although it was probably unnecessary, but I...

Finally got the chance to get back out here to fix the fiberglass. Planned on coming out on Tuesday but I ordered some paint scrapers and they just came in yesterday. Used the paint scrapers to take out all the high spots from the runs which worked extremely well. Using a longboard, I sanded...

Hey stripper guy, Definetly not a kit. I bought plans from Bear Mountain for the 15ft Prospector Ranger, but I’ve put the work in, instead of buying a kit. The only prefab/purchased pieces will be the seats, although I will hand cane them myself. The only reason I planned on buying seat...

I’ll report back on Tuesday night on how it’s looking.

If you can’t tell, I’m abit frustrated!

Thanks Mark. I remember thinking to myself after the first coat that everything was looking almost perfect. We had 2 little creases in the fiberglass but it was pretty minor and I was really pleased with what we accomplished. The second coat is where we got into the trouble. At first I...

I don’t have any good pictures of just after the wet out coat, but I did take 1. Not sure if it’s going to show you what your looking for though. It shouldn’t be that hard to just sand down and redo would it? I mean I know it’s going to cost abit, but I’d rather have it done right and look...

There are just a lot of runs. Epoxy was layed on too thick and we had an issue with the squeegeeing. I had 2 squeegees and both of them got knocked up on the grunge can and they were leaving streaks, so we stopped using them which was a huge mistake. At that point, I thought we were going to...

No I haven’t yet Mark. Been trying to figure out what to do about the fiberglassing. I went back the next day and put on the next coat but it didn’t go on very well. I really don’t like how it turned out. One side looks really good, but the other side looks terrible. Yesterday I finally...

Ok makes sense I’ll head back over there now and put on the next coat. thanks

Hey Jim, absolutely no outclassing that’s I can tell. The only spot that I sanded (very lightly) was to see how that spot would react to the sanding. The coat is still green that is why I stopped sanding, but I am pretty sure that I did not do any aesthetic damage to the hull. Maybe I am...