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  1. Thestripper

    Budget Stripper or Wood/Canvas Builds: How to Save Costs

    I think the hull material can be a huge saving. Depending upon your location, WRC or NWC might be obtainable for a resonable price. This is not at all the case where I am so I simply went with cheap Spruce cladding (picea abies) for my Kite. I cut the strips with a circular saw on my strongback...
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    Video, of a guy tipping a canoe over in the middle of a Minnesota Lake

    I've seen this video before. He is making some bad decisions for sure but I bet this experience kicked up his sea awareness a few notches. I have yet to tip over in any serious situation but there has been a few instances where I have made bold decisions that could have ended really bad. One of...
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    Ultimate Decks

    The link works now. Wow! That is beautiful. Thanks for sharing this.
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    Ultimate Decks

    Hi RjC. I can not see any video at that link either. Sounds intriguing but I always feel hesitant to go on to the Tiktok platform which is notorious for all sorts of bad things. Could you upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo perhaps?
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    Winter footwear preferences?

    How do you maintain them to prevent this?
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    Winter footwear preferences?

    Footwear ismuch like, well.. like canoes. There are pretty good all-rounders and there are great ones that will excel but only in a narrow area of use. Good footwear, like a good canoe, is bliss. When it comes to footwear selection I try to go for the lightest and softest shoe that I can...
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    Winter footwear preferences?

    Those look very nice from google pictures. Do they work when it's wet too? Post a picture if you got one.
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    Winter footwear preferences?

    If I'm not going in steep terrain I use the old style, un-lined Lundhags. These are a pair of unused ones from late 90's that I bought second hand last year. The uppers are good quality leather and the lower part is some kind of vulcanized rubber, I think they call it cell-rubber. Soles are...
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    Re-webbing Canoe Seats?

    I used 32mm Nylon webbing for my seat. A week or two before mounting it to the seat frame I stretched the webbing between two trees. I used a ratchet strap to tighten it until I could play it like a bass guitar. It rained and it dried a few times and I could tell from the tone that it had...
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    Finds, Relics, and Evidence from The Past

    To the left in this picture you can see remnants of some red painted stick figures. There was even a few drops of the paint on the rocks on the floor which made it look so fresh, like it was recently made. These are dated to 3000 years old. To the right you can hint the carved silhouette of a...
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    First time builder Ashes Solo Trip

    It's nothing kinky or viking related at all. I just freehanded the shaped of my yoke and it turned out with somewhat sharp horns sticking out over the shoulders. This looks cool but it's not helpful or practical, in fact I think they are a little bit dangerous. I also used quick clamps to...
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    First time builder Ashes Solo Trip

    Hi Bentrod! Congratulations to what looks like a very nice build! In preparing for the laminating I would recommend to read through this: https://laughingloon.com/epoxy.html Having control over shop temperature And epoxy temperature is key! I think you might find some helpful info in the thread...
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    Aurora Borealis

    A week ago there was an extreme display of aurora across the sky in northern Norway. I'm at 68 degrees north so it's common to see the aurora but this one was evidently something else. I was in southern Europe that night but landed back home the night after. I heard ordinary people who usually...
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    SkilSaw Method for Strip Cutting ... a primer

    I just spoke to Festool customer service and It seems that there are no thin-kerf blades that will fit the Festool TS55. That's a shame because the machine is very good, especially with the aluminium guide and dust extraction is excellent. Because the riving knife is quite thick it would stick...
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    SkilSaw Method for Strip Cutting ... a primer

    Have you managed to find any good thin kerf blade to fit the Festool saw for ripping strips? I used mine with a long vacuum hose that I rigged so it did slide along the strongback as I was cutting. The festool dust collection is indeed stellar. With the thick blade it was slow cutting though...
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    JW Kite build - ready for Gunwales

    I have only tried it in the shop thus far where I have put it on and taken it off 5 or 6 times. Once you've dialed in the setting then it's a very quick operation to put it on and take it off and it seems to lock in very tight. If you would put a spring between the yoke and the clamping block to...
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    JW Kite build - ready for Gunwales

    "horny yoke"... At least it sounds funny 😊
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    Photo of the day

    This is all that remains of the old waterway where viking ships and other ships from all over Europe sailed in to the Old Town settlement in Lulea, northern Sweden. It went on for a couple of miles like this and we almost made it through to the Old Town. Almost..
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    JW Kite build - ready for Gunwales

    I went with the second scetch and so far it works better than expected. If I had some regular screws with star nuts I would probably just have used those like most people have. But I don't have time to order and so this idea was born after looking through the scrap drawer. I didn't have any big...
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