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Last night I let my impatience get the best of me, after about four hours I pulled the glue up off the form. Almost immediately it started to delaminate. I quickly put it back in the form, hoping for the best. This AM I took a look, it started out ok but when I loaded it up it delaminated in...

No Title I made a jig to bend the front of the seat. Just eyeballed the curve, about an inch and a quarter drop about 16" wide. I ripped the cypress to about 3/16" thick. Crosssection is about 1 1/8" x 1 1/4" deep. Used titebond for the glue. I may redo with epoxy depending how this looks...

I think I want everything attached permanently. The seatback would be a hinged "H" shape that when folded forward would expose shoulder pads. Or I could just try a tump line setup.

Ok I'm back. Just finished building a piesafe donation for my daughter's school. So now I can get back to important stuff! I need help with the seat in this canoe, I think it will be Cypress with a curved front. According to the designer I should place ithe front of the seat an inch or two...

Wow, looks great. I prefer to use a seal coat, I squeege it on when I do it. That way there is no extra epoxy, when I'm done the wood has a flat finish and there isn't enough build to hold a bubble. Not a big deal, there is just a little more epoxy on the surface. Now, take a razor blade and...

Robin good looking boat, seems like a good deal. I'd give it a shot but I have too may things getting built in the basement and my wife might shoot me if I brought one more home. https://westernmass.craigslist.org/boa/5948453763.html

Alan, I think what you're seeing is the patina on the upper surface of the gunwales (dried up pickle juice?) I kind like it looks neat and seems pretty durable, unfortunately I didn't align the seam perfectly so I'm going to have to take it down to bare wood. I'm not sure if I like the bright...

No Title Just got gunwales epoxied on. Checked the weight 32# seems a little off I think it was my technique I'm using a pulley for the lift. I'm guessing it's really about 34#. Anyways here is a picture. The cypress really smells when cutting. It was reclaimed from pickle barrels supposedly.

No Title Cypress is about 50% heavier and 50%more dent resistant than wrc as well as naturally rot resistant This hull seems really stiff compared to the last canoe so I'm going light on the gunwales. I was thinking about going more traditional scuppered style with seat hanging. Seems like...

No Title Haven't posted in a while but I've made progress. Finished the float tanks no vent yet (still debating internally). I get 1.5psi swings with a 50degree swing. Seems like you could easily see that going from hot sun to cool water. There is a fair amount of surface on the hull side...

A better way is to let the two glued surfaces dry the cover with a layer of paper. Position the kneeling pad where you want and the slide the paper out while holding the pad in place.

It might be your top coat, on my last canoe I used some waterbased clear coat which looked beautiful until I put it in the water. Then it turned milky everywhere that got wet. It doesn't really go away when rewet, only a little better. I'm living with it, one of these days I'll fix it up.

I started fitting some float tanks for the ends, should I drills vent holes to equalize the pressure in the tank?

I just weighed it, I'm at 27# not too bad. What SG said about the hull shape effecting stiffness is so true. I bet I could paddle this now without gunwales!

Well...I squeegied a second coat of epoxy at the cost of about 10oz. of boat weight. I'm not sure if it's worth it because I'm not planning on making the interior a showpiece. My thoughts for doing this are: it's an easy way to level out the seams (partially) without sanding, add some wear...

Jealous of all you winners!! I soooo wanted a Woods pack.

The tape line worked well, minimal fraying of the cloth. After I cut it I had to go around the edge with a brush to do a little touch up which went well. I think I put the second football layer on top mostly out of habit. When I do it in the outside of the hill I can scrape the edge to make a...

No Title Second layer all wet out, went well some small bubbles that I couldn't get out though. Going to wait an hour or two and roll on another coat to fill the weave.

No Title A second layer of 6oz is about to go on. I'm doing it a little differently this time, I marked the perimeter with two layers of tape. I plan on cutting to the tape with a razor after I wet out, hopefully that will keep everything meet and minimize stray fiberglass strands.