Recent content by wildbill

Its one of these. http://jemwatercraft.com/proddetail.php?prod=DKTour or at least its supposed to be :D

Some interesting info here on small boats http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/gsahv/oss/oss.htm#WIO#WIO

WOW

The weather finaly got dry, so I could carry on. I'm now convinced of a few things. 1 It's gonna look like shite when its done. 2 I dont care cos' it will float and be a lot of fun this summer. 3 I WILL build a bigger workshop, so the next one can be done properly.

Hi Zeb, Tomorrow I'll be mostly shooting wabbits, the local golf course is infested with the little bu**ers, hopefuly the odd squirrel and woody too. Sorry to hear that your ply delaminated, mine was so cheap that I'm suprised i got away with it

Now you've done it!! my daughter saw that and wants one just like it....... There is no delamination at all, just the staining.

As I suspected. never mind I think theres a tin of sparkley pink paint in the shed that was left over from my daughters bedroom, that shoul do the job :D I've left it all out in the sun today to dry the ply out. Tomorrow it's hunting in the morning, and boat building in the afternoon, bet...

After a good start, getting the bottom and 2 sides together it started raining. That was 2 weeks ago, today it stopped and the sun is shining but when i took the covers of to continue working the whole thing was soaked. The canoe is bigger than my workshop, so once i started i had to stay...

My epoxy finaly arrived ( a week late). Today I get to start making long bits of wood out of all those small bits. Pretty pictures (hopefully) will follow shortly.

I think the hardest thing about this boat building lark is actualy starting. I had some nice looking ply delivered on saturday, and I spent most of the weekend just staring at it. Today I plucked up the courage to start, and I've been at it all day. Now I just have to figure out how it...