Ontario BS Thread

welp now i need to repair my old canoe..
someone decided to ram my 10 year old langford into a bunch of rocks and there is a foot and a half long crack in the bow...

i have no idea how to repair a kevlar canoe

 

Often with kevlar it will break the resin but not tear the cloth , it should be fairly easy to patch ,may not be easy to make pretty,,, Take a couple of pictures of it
I have everything you need ,kevlar ,S glass or carbon fibre and the release fabric except epoxy resin

 

When in doubt...

 

How many plies? Is there a honeycomb core?

 

Have any of you been through water deeper than the bottom of your doors? How well do the seals keep water out? I'm going out with some friends on Sat. and some of the trails we’re thinking of doing can have water up to 3 feet deep (Shoe Lace, Crystal Lake). I'm hoping the relatively dry summer has the water holes lower than that but plan for the worst right?

 

Not sure specifically how many layers, bu it's the Prospector 16'6 "X" from a few years back

the current spec sheet from langford; http://langfordcanoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Prospector-16.pdf

I swore i had photos of the cracks, but that doesn't seem to be the case. But yeah, you're correct it's not torn through and floats without leaks. for the time being.
I'd like to make it as nice as possible again as it was the grand prize from Algonquin's annual raffle. Lots of memories tied to it.

That might just work if i coat the entire underside, like a shell

 

You should be fine, I had water up to where headlights are and everything is dry.

Not sure about it being dry now in the fall tho, have your recovery gear ready.

 

duct tape

 

My grandparents farm was on the corner of schoolhouse road (aka 22 side road in the day) and 10 hwy.
I think the house is still (just barely) standing, but the barns are gone. You can’t see the shell of the house for the overgrown trees.
I love that area. Beautiful country! There was an airport behind the farm and I liked watching the bi-planes flying in formation.

 

I was just above the emblem on the door many times and no water in the cab.

only 1 time when I buried the front end and opened the door, not realizing how far in I was... that wasn’t pretty and stunk too!

 

Brampton flying club still there...did my ground school there. I've flown in and out of there quite often

 

I live the next concession over from the Woodstock flying club now. We see the Harvards practicing all the time. They are loud!
Went up with my buddy in his 1946 post ww2 plane. My first time in a small plane like that. Very cool!

 

Bi-planes? Were you crankin up the model A when they flew over?

Gawd you must be old....


LOL

I'll just run over there before I get swatted with a cane or somethin'.....

 

Lol. Pretty sure we’re around the same age.

 

Although I am retiring at the end of the year. 35 working days left to go!

 

I've done touch and goes, and full stops at Woodstock as well. Nice little airport

 

Not that your counting or anything....

 

@daks - talking about age, which young bucks on this forum would know where your avatar came from?

Bill The Cat from Bloom County

 

I know

but I grew up in the 80s era...
We only got internet in 2017 where I am from

 

Had to replace both front wheel bearings, passenger worse than driver. The bad one was completely open and full of crap inside which forked up the speed sensor. I keep going through wheel bearings and it's driving me crazy. They been averaging 16 months. Are there any "super heavy duty" bearings I can upgrade to?