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Ok - I buy it :-) Also, I looked and only the rear or solo paddler would have a view as there is not room to put in for the front paddler who is the person I would be impressing. So, that one is...

And yes, I still have not made it to filletting on my Eureka, as I have been late at work each day this week. I am hoping this weekend if not before. I am also experimenting with some fabric like...

Jumping in again. Here is my situation, I have the twist out of the boat, but if I put a level on the sheer panels, they are definitely not level. Do I worry about that now? I repeat, the boat is...

Hi all again! Ok, I need to finish the hatch on the kayak and it will be done. The varnish is on and I will chase out any leaks that exist.

As you may recall from my saga, the Eureka is...

Par - The inside is ugly ugly ugly. CLC's kit was largely good, but I hear (from John Harris himself) that the Mill Creek suffers from having been the last analog designed boat in their "fleet". I...

We paddled about a mile and a half today between my dad and myself. When I carried it down to the lake, I could hear water in the aft compartment. After paddling I heard water in the fore...

I live in Florida but my heart is still a Sooner! In fact, the Eureka is going to be called Boomer Sooner and I have even ordered OU fabric with the intention of using it on the HULL from about the...

Thanks all! And I will post some video of my 30 second speech and the launching. Mik - it took all I could do to avoid a shout out to you during my speech, but I figured I will send the video to...

How about these? My mom just shot video of me paddling, so I will have to add a shot of me later. I am the one standing behind the boat with my dad :-)

I like it! Thank you!

My launching party for the Mill Creek 13, "Thanks Dad" is set for Sunday afternoon! It will be light two coats of varnish and the hatch for the aft compartment won't be done but ... woot!

I will...

Ok, I'll go forward! We glassed the deck of the kayak tonight, I'm hoping to be varnishing by Sunday! Then full speed finishing the eureka, which I am naming for my university's battle cry, Boomer...

Here is my Eureka in progress. After screwing in the spreader bars, I winded it again. As you can see from the closeup, there is definite twist. It is enough you can see it visually without even...

I was trying to figure out the angle to cut the temp spreader bars and remembered there was such a thing as a compound bevel - then figured out how to cut one :-)

Danielle

Thanks everyone!

What is speaking to me is that this has been a great project between me and my dad (and really the only thing like this I can remember).

I am thinking of a shorter version of what I did, in the...

Everyone keeps asking me what I am going to name my boats. And as a newbie Boat Builder, I have put some thought into it. So, for my Kayak which is only going to be succesfully built because my dad...

By now knowing me a little bit, don't you mean "when" not "if" :-)

I reread the plans, I guess the next step is to wind the boat (it definitely had some twist that I got out as far as I saw but), so I will turn it over, and start tightening stitches!

Since I...

Thanks I will work on that!

We glassed the bow and stern of the kayak and I have the Eureka stitched. What is interesting to me is that the two smaller spreader bars are "just right" and not in...

I did the fillets in 3 nights. The forward compartment which isn't planned to have a hatch, the aft compartment which might have a hatch and the cockpit. The bottom to bilge was my fillet. The top...

Here are some pics I took.

The first one is the Eureka with the bilge panels stitched to the bottom panel. Two problems, one is that I couldn't back up any further - wow that is a long boat :-)...

LOL Par - I am sure you are right! :-) My dad has done most of the jigsawing.

I will figure out how to upload pics again. Last night I stitched (sorry Par - I still put holes in my boat) the...

My dad and I planed the parts last night (well, dad did the actual planing, I was director/quality control/part holder :-) and glued them together last night! I plan on stitching tonight (sending...

I am working again on my Eureka, only the hardest core of you will remember I had the wood and was figuring out how to loft over a year and a half ago! Well, I lofted it, but I didn't have a batan...

Thanks for the quick update! I will reread the plans (using the updated ones) and see what it says. I was a little confused because it wanted me to lay the two sheets of plywood in a 16x4 manner...

Ok - I hope I can get this advice before tonight (my time :-) I drew my center line, and the 300 mil lines last night and marked places for the panel pins for the middle and 1 each of the panels. ...

Fort Lauderdale! email sent. I paddled one of those plastic kayaks at Blue Springs 2 weeks ago, nice place :-)

Thanks for the reply - email is on the way after I type this. Sorry I missed you! Any tips for a first time epoxy user? I have also decided that my first step is going to be to loft the parts on...

I have my wood and am going to try to draw everything out over the next couple of days. My goal is to have everything cut out and planed to size in the next couple of weeks. I do need to obtain my...

I was a little worried about the transparent possibility not knowing anything practical about epoxy yet. I guess I will take some scrap wood and play with "leftover" epoxy from the initial parts of...

I am about to go to bed now though ;-)

I am rather liking the idea of getting the brochures for places here in Florida and decopauging with them so that the canoe is particularly mine. Of...

Ok - it seems like I officially posted "yesterday" again - I will elaborate on my decopauge idea.

Since the decks on the tanks for the Eureka are fairly small, and I am wanting to use this to...

Hi all! I have actually posed most of this question to Michael via email, but thought I would post it to the other experts here.

I think I may want to make the decks have a little bit of a...

Australia is one of the places I have always dreamed of making it to! I will someday!

I am guessing I will just use the butt joint in the plans, it is not like someone will be walking along in...

Hey P - thanks again for the answer and that picture was worth a lot - I thought you wrapped the batan around the outside of the nails! You just saved me some trouble there.

As for "value" - I...

First off - this is an Australian board and second, and more relevant here - we have that saying in the states too ;-)

I love learning "colloquialisms" from all over. One of my favorite is in...

Well, the other plans I had been looking at were the Mill Creek 16.5 from CLC. Their plans also include quite an instruction book for about the same price. For $75 here I got about 35 pages of...

Hi all! I have almost completed reading this thread ;-) I bought the plans! I love the look of this canoe, but I have been a little underwelmed by the plans - more like "I spent $75 for this?" If it...

Hi all! I am quite taken with the look of the Eureka canoe! I was going to build a kayak and now think I should build this first! I have a question, and I will duck as soon as I ask.

As I have...