Jim Dodd

I've come to enjoy building canoes during the winter and experimenting with different wood combinations. The decision of what to build...

I like the strap idea ! But there are flaws with everything. Adding rows of strips, even if you placed 5 strips, in ready to glue...

You make some really good points, Brian! I had considered some of these, like recurved tumblehome making it useless, but it's funny how...

I probably had my garage at 65 F for the job. I preheated the shop overnight with the baseboard and 2 space heaters to ensure it was at...

I found glassing in the middle of Winter, was a pain. Nothing like a July glass job. Cold and epoxy don't mix. How warm was your shop...

These are to me the most stressful days it the build proces. I hope you can realx now be very proud on this achievement. And have...

The fill coat helped a fair bit even if you can't tell in the pictures.

When setting up for glassing I used foam cradles out near the stems where the boat is already tough. I didn’t want to risk the hull...

Stripperguy, I really appreciate you taking the time to dig out those pictures. They help a lot. Mem, you keep calling your work...

Well, I just went out to the garage to measure the decks and bulkheads in my carbon copy Kite. Haha, the trick's on me!! I don't have...

Nick Schade has a good repair video. Hull Repair Jim

I found the thread, on how I build my Flotation chambers. It's in my Nokomis build thread. Sorry for the Photobucket interference ...

OK Bulkheads or not ? Stripp[ers will float, when filled with water. push down on them with little pressure. They will sink, and take...

Gamma, the masking is for the fillet joint. I find it helps keep the mess to a minimum but more importantly it acts as a guide to get a...

Got the fillet joints done and the seal coat completed. I used my wife's icing bags and the disposable wooden spoon again for the...