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Epoxyworks 32 Is Also Available As A FREE BUILDING, RESTORATION & REPAIR with EPOXY Number 32 n Spring 2011 In this issue EPOXYWORKS® 1 Ted’s Jewel Box Editor / Designer Michael Barker A look at the new Bear Mountain 30 Hybrid Electric Managing Editor / Copy Editor Grace Ombry Launch as it plies the Rideau Canal. Contact / Subscriptions Kristen Lore 5 Strip Planking Contributors Michael Barker, Ben Gougeon, Ted Moores, Ted Moores offers the first of a series of lessons learned Grace Ombry, Joe Parker, Tom Pawlak, Sean Schippers, Rob from the building of the Bear Mountain 30 Launch. VanMullekom and J. R. Watson. Epoxyworks 8 A G/flex Modified Snow Shovel is published twice a year by Gougeon Brothers, Inc., Bay City, MI, USA. Who, but Tom Pawlak could come up with a practical way to improve a standard plastic snow shovel. Product number 000-605 ©2011 by Gougeon Brothers Inc. Reproduction in any form, in 9 Building My First Strip-Planked Boat whole or in part, is expressly forbidden without the written First time builder Sean Schippers turns an 8' Classic consent of the publisher. Dingy project into a wooden treasure. Epoxyworks is a registered trademark of Gougeon Brothers, 10 Building Iakos Inc. WEST SYSTEM,105 Epoxy Resin, 205 Fast Hardener, 206 Slow A Maine boat building company builds a set of iakos, or Hardener, 410 Microlight, G/5, G/flex and Six10 are beams, for a Polynesian voyaging canoe. registered trademarks of West System Inc. 207 Special Clear Hardener, 209 Extra Slow Hardener, 422 Barrier Coat Additive, 12 Readers’ Projects Episize and Scarffer are trademarks of West System Inc. Epoxyworks readers send us photos of a wide range of Subscriptions, US and Canada Epoxyworks subscriptions are projects using WEST SYSTEM® Epoxy FREE to US and Canadian addresses. Subscriptions do not expire. 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Articles are arranged under Epoxy Techniques & Materials, Boat Repair & Restoration, Boat Construction, Epoxy’s Non-Marine Uses, Readers’ Project Gallery, and the Project Directory. JUST A REMINDER—Your subscription to Epoxyworks does not expire unless you want it to. To cancel a subscription, add a subscription or change your address, email Kris at Epoxyworks is printed on paper [email protected] or call 866-937-8797. certified by the Forest Cert no. SCS-COC-00979 Stewardship Council. EPOXYWORKS Ted’s Jewel Box By Michael Barker After three years of painstaking work and weeks of inland cruising. There is a small many interruptions, Ted Moores of Bear berth under the forward deck. The cabin, or Cover story Mountain Boats completed the Bear Moun- pilot house, encloses the steering station, gal- tain 30 Hybrid Electric Launch Sparks on ley and head. The aft half of the boat is an June 22, 2010. The boat is unlike any he had open lounge seating area that can comfort- built before. ably accommodate up to six passengers for The Bear Mountain 30 Hybrid Electric day trips and can be enclosed with canvas Launch is designed for low-speed cruising panels when the weather dictates. while using the least amount of fossil fuel Following the launch, Ted and partner Joan possible. It normally runs on batteries Barrett took Sparks on a 12-week, 674 mile charged by solar panels and shore power. shakedown cruise from their hometown of When necessary, a diesel generator powers Peterborough, Ontario, through the Trent its electric motor and charges its batteries. Canal to Clayton, New York, and then north via the Rideau Canal to Ottawa. The narrow displacement hull is more ca- Ted Moores ties up noe-like than the average family cruiser. It While in Clayton they displayed Sparks at Sparks at the blue line at was designed by Steve Killing, a master of ef- the Clayton Marine Museum Antique and the Kilmarnock Lock on ficient small boat design long associated with Classic Boat Show, where it won the Best the Rideau Canal. Bear Mountain Boats. The launch will com- Contemporary Boat Award. It’s easy to see fortably accommodate a couple for several why this 30' fantail launch is so appealing. Joan Barrett loads provisions in Smiths Falls, On- tario, for the next leg of their cruise on the Rideau Canal. The side curtains provide a good measure of protection in bad weather and are easily removed and stowed on nice days. Joan pushes off the stern while Mary (right) and Lucie, Ted and Joan’s faithful traveling companion, get comfortable in the open aft lounge. Number 32, Spring 2011 1 brightwork and there is a lot of brightwork. The joinery and the finish are flawless. You will notice a predominance of white cedar planking and book matched curly maple ve- Left—Looking forward, It borrows the classic lines and character of neer accented with black cherry and walnut the cabin/pilot house steam launches that plied these canals gener- contains a berth under trim. Most of the planking and veneer was ations ago, but at the same time it represents vacuum bagged over plywood fiberglassed on the deck, a galley, head everything Ted Moores has learned about and the steering station. both sides. All of the brightwork is assembled modern composite boatbuilding over the last andcoatedwithWESTS* SYSTEM® 105 Epoxy Right—Joan and Ted thirty-five years. I couldn’t wait to see it. check the indispensable resin/207 Special Clear Hardener™ and var- Canal Guide to help pick While on vacation last August (2010), my nished with Pettit Easpoxy™ Hi-build 2056. the next stopping point wife Mary and I were fortunate to catch up The first leg of our afternoon cruise on the on their way to Ottawa. with Ted and Joan in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Rideau Canal was a 26' drop. Lock 29 has for an afternoon cruise on the Rideau Canal. the largest drop on the canal. About 15 min- Smiths Falls is about midway between utes after entering the lock, the tall gate at Kingston and Ottawa, lock number 29a on the opposite end of what was now a canyon the canal. After dropping off a vehicle at the opened. After a friendly wave to the lock Kilmarnock Lock, number 24, about 20 min- keepers we were off. Sparks was quickly and utes away by car, we boarded Sparks. quietly up to cruising speed. For most of the It’s immediately obvious why she won a Best three-hour tour Ted cruised in the 5–6 knot Contemporary Boat Award and why Joan range, right at the boats hull speed. Sparks called the launch “Ted’s Jewel Box.” There are seemed to move effortlessly at this speed. few straight lines in this boat. Those classic The absence of engine noise gives you the lines require a lot of laminating, a lot of hard feeling it’s being pulled along by magnets, work. Ted is a perfectionist when it comes to which in a way it is. Left—The white cedar paneling on either side of the aft stairs is trimmed with cherry. Right—Ted also used Cherry to trim the book-matched curly ma- ple door to the head. 2 EPOXYWORKS Bear Mountain 30 Hybrid Electric Launch LOA: 30' Beam: 6' 11" Displacement: 6,800 lb Power: 7.5 kW Perm DC motor Cruising speed: 5-6 knots Designer hull: Steve Killing Designer electric: Jonathan Killing Builder/owner: Ted Moores Although there is a large intimidating electri- cal panel, the boat’s controls are quite sim- ple: there is the traditional wheel, throttle, bow thruster control, depth gauge and a computer screen. A check of the computer The eight Kyocera solar showed that in the few days since they left modules on the roof of the boat docked in Smiths Falls, the solar Sparks, capable of pro- panels had restored the batteries to a full ducing 400 watts at 48 charge.
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