An Interesting Situation

I’ve found myself in an interesting situation. I got a phone call a couple weeks ago from a woman who said she had gotten a business card from me at the Quiet Water Symposium some years ago. Her husband had built 4 canoes to varying stages of completion and he died unexpectedly last fall. None of the boats are completely done and she would like to finish the boats and give them to her kids which was the original plan. The boats are all the same design which came from Laughing Loon Kayaks and Canoes. I’ve admired the designs from Laughing Loon for years and the man who built the 4 canoes, Dave Goodwin, did a wonderful job and incorporated some really nice trim work into the canoes. I’m looking forward to helping the boats on their way to completion and getting familiar with these Laughing Loon boats.

I brought one boat home yesterday and sanded the outside of the hull in preparation for adding a few more coats of epoxy resin. I got the first coat of resin on this morning and I’ll put another coat on this afternoon if I have enough. Its been long enough since I did any boat work that I have to go through my stuff and see just how much epoxy resin, finishes, glues, sandpaper and who knows what else I need to make a boat pretty.