Recent content by Scott Gilliland

Well, I have the form in place and sent the specs to the epoxy supplier to get a materials estimate. They suggested that it maybe quite heavy. Their technician will get back to me on Monday with some options. Maybe fewer layers of glass and adding some ribbing to the interior. I've seen...

motor as sold before I could get there... I'll keep looking.

I've already taken a few pics. It's not pretty, but I think it will work. I've quickly built a frame using some plastic trim, made a pattern with a polyethylene sheet and copied it to the corrugated plastic sheet. It was not a perfect fit, but it worked. I've use the polyethylene as a...

Thanks Eric. I was planning to use the same types of cloth, but was not sure how many layers to plan for.

Chad/Eric. Eric shared your post last year and suggested I build something similar. I'm going to give it a try. I used a corrugated plastic sheet to make the form. I have a couple questions. How how many layers of glass and what volume of resin did it take to make the dodger? Also, do you...

I see two of them for sale now. One is 1300 CAD..... I will go check it out .. thanks Eric and Roy. Scott

From what I can see there seems to have been models in those years: 2 and 3 cylinders. Both models had 25 and 30s on the same blocks, but the 2 cylinders were lighter. I'm not all that concerned about speed. My larger boat carries the maximum hp and I love it. It cruises at 3300-3800 RPM, I...

Well, I've gone back and forth about reprogramming the ECM to potentially increase the output from the 15 hp 4-stroke Suzuki to ~25 hp. This requires fuel with octane rating of at least 89 -- I use mostly premium anyways. The advantage is 25 hp with a <100 lb motor. Moving up to a 25 hp...

I'm hoping to make a small ringneck set to start. I have a bunch of old herters with broken heads that I plan to convert from scoters/eiders to ringnecks. The head pattern I have is ~2" wide and I think the 2" pine will work. If the board is quarter sawn I'm guessing the neck might be a weak...

I hoping to carve a few heads for decoys. I have a good source of eastern white pine and I'm wondering what qualities I should look for. I can get the boards in rough sawn 2" and 3". I think the 2" is will work. If I have an option should I select quarter sawn or flat sawn? For growth...

Lots of thoughts. In the Eastern Arctic it is the northern subspecies of the common eider. Birds migrate to southwestern Greenland, and Newfoundland and parts of Quebec in Canada to winter. There have been 2 recent projects that have revisited older data sets and we see very different...

Just returned from my third summer inventorying colonies of eider ducks on the south coast of Baffin Island in Arctic Canada. This summer we set up camp about 150 km east of Kinngait (old name Cape Dorset). Our camp was comprised of 4 wall tents surrounded by a bear fence. Although we are all...

Thanks Guys. I was convinced that going back to a 25 hp 2-stroke was the the right motor of the boat. A real advantage for the 4-stroke I appreciate is I can use the same gas in my larger boat and my generators. I was intrigued by the option of getting ~25 hp out of the 15 Suzuki. For most...