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Re: Canoecopia Jack, The canoe museum in Spooner will have a booth at Canoecopia in Madison. Stop in and say Hi. And get on our mailing list for newsletters and announcements for upcoming canoebuilding classes. You may want to become a member of the non-profit canoe museum/workshop to help us...

If you're planning to travel north to paddle this summer—way north like to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota—stop in Spooner, Wisconsin on your way to tour the brand new Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum. This non-profit canoe museum and workshop is the nation's only museum dedicated...

Jack's point is well taken, that the film thickness is not the only measure of UV protection in spar varnish or 2-part urethane clearcoat finishes. Most marine spar varnish manufacturers add UV protectant as a separate ingredient in varying amounts. So if the UV protectant concentration is the...

Jack, The degree of UV protection is directly related to the thickness of the coat doing the protecting. Five coats of spar varnish, wet-sanded between coats, builds to about 0.005" (5 mils)—or about 1 mil per coat. 2-part urethane clearcoat builds about 2-3 mils per coat, and you can easily...

I'm wondering if any of you southern builders have experimented with spraying 2-part automotive clearcoat—rather than spar varnish— on cedarstrip boats to protect the clear epoxy from sunshine. I'm a canoebuilder in northern Wisconsin and I've been experimenting with a common PPG automotive...