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Outstanding! Congratulations Swift people.

I made up a dozen or so of these to buffer between the round Yakima rack and the gunwales. The base is minicel, and the top is yellow 5 mm Evazote pad from MEC. Minicel is greasy-slippery when wet, so I used the super-grippy Evazote on the tops. I've carried some boats from Clipper in...

". . . I always fasten a short bungee strap from the rack bar to the front thwart as soon as I lift the canoe onto the vehicle, it is the last thing I unhook before unloading . . ." Turtle Ditto.

For local travel I use 1" cam straps front and back, and a 1" cam strap pigtail around the front thwart and front cross-bar. For highway trips, I double up on the front strap and I tie the front painter to a Thule under-the-hood strap.

Dress to swim.

What do you use to attach your boat to your vehicle for transport?

On opacity-- Is the inside of a horse as dark as the inside of a cow?

From System Three website: "All solvent-free epoxies have essentially unlimited shelf lives so long as they are stored in sealed containers. The resin may crystallize or the hardener may darken but this does not affect its performance. If the material is more than a year old do a test to...

I've been using either Lee Valley Cabinet Maker's Adhesive 2002 GF, or West System 105-206+filler (silica, wood flour, cotton flox etc) for laminating. Sometimes I mix in a pinch of West 423 Graphite Powder to either adhesive to give me a nice black glue line-- I like to know where the joint is...

Hi blackfly. Here's a great resource worth every penny: https://www.amazon.ca/Canoe-Paddles-Complete-Guide-Making/dp/1552095258/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460650762&sr=8-1&keywords=Paddle+making+book

Canotrouge, I quite like the look of the tapered glue line. You've been busy! I managed to whittle my Sitka Beavertail shaft down to roundish yesterday, and I will refine it some today and hopefully prep it for finish. I looked at some videos from Shaw & Tenney on YouTube and noted the...

That looks great CT. Here's an update on my Sitka Beavertail. I hope to finish the shaft tomorrow.

The holes have chrome-moly tube sleeves epoxied in, and the through-pins are half-inch steel rods.

Thanks all. Murat V, your horse is sensible and perfect for the job; it's very similar to those used by professional chair bodgers of centuries past. That round thing in the horse's mouth is a piece of reinforced clear PVC tube over a 1.25" hardwood dowel. It's attached through the 'nostrils'...

Yes I really think these seats qualify as art-- so many tools are beautiful in form and function. I used the horse for a while with just the fir board, but it's really slippery and you need to have a firm base to draw from-- even with the push-back from the treadle down below. I kept sliding...

Bowron Lake Circuit. Swan Lake after sunset. Looking west at Bowron Mountain from campsite 48 near the intersection of Swan and Spectacle Lakes.

Does anybody else use a shaving horse for shaping some aspects of a paddle? First I do the blade to the throat, and the grip to the 'max choke-up' position (about a foot from the end of the grip)-- I do these clamped to the bench and in a vise for quick flipping. I do the shaft last, beginning...

I agree with memaquay: if it's mostly river travel-- some big and fast-- I'll take the Ranger too. But for the solo aspect, paddling conditions would surely have to be more sedate-- this Prospector is a full-bodied craft. I prefer symmetrical canoes in moving water for the reasons you...

Spanky's a beauty! Nice work.

The Freedom 15 by Steve Killing is a good-looking plan worth checking out. It is finer than the Ranger 15 Prospector, with a 'modern' hull shape. I think it would fit the role as a part-time solo a little better than the Ranger. http://www.bearmountainboats.ca/coll...cts/freedom-15