Larry Meyer
Wooden Canoes are in the Blood
I have been posting to the forum for some time and one thing that seems plain is that it might be time to create something like a true FAQs section of the website. While there is a FAQs section on the forum, its content is sparse. On the other hand, many of the same (“frequently asked”) questions keep popping up, especially in the ever-popular Wood Canvas/Fiberglass section.
A forum like this is great, but I’ve also seen online forums grow constipated with reiteration.
My personal candidates for inclusion in a WCHA website FAQS section would be answers to these questions.
I just bought a wood-canvas canoe that needs restoration. How do I get started?
I just bought a wood-canvas canoe covered with fiberglass that needs restoration. How do I get started?
I want to fiberglass a wooden canoe. Should I do this?
What is the North Woods canoe stroke?
How do I strip the varnish on this blankety-blank canoe?
The canoe I am restoring had a keel on it. Should I put a keel on it too?
These are all subjects I’ve treaded on before and oft times I’ve just dipped into the file and reposted what I posted before. I’m sure others have candidates for inclusion in the above list. While I appreciate that there are always new slants to everything and rookies like it when they get personal attention, it would seem to me about time to canonize some of the more brilliant, but routine, innovations and insights that have surfaced in the forum and carve them in the stone of a FAQs section.
A forum like this is great, but I’ve also seen online forums grow constipated with reiteration.
My personal candidates for inclusion in a WCHA website FAQS section would be answers to these questions.
I just bought a wood-canvas canoe that needs restoration. How do I get started?
I just bought a wood-canvas canoe covered with fiberglass that needs restoration. How do I get started?
I want to fiberglass a wooden canoe. Should I do this?
What is the North Woods canoe stroke?
How do I strip the varnish on this blankety-blank canoe?
The canoe I am restoring had a keel on it. Should I put a keel on it too?
These are all subjects I’ve treaded on before and oft times I’ve just dipped into the file and reposted what I posted before. I’m sure others have candidates for inclusion in the above list. While I appreciate that there are always new slants to everything and rookies like it when they get personal attention, it would seem to me about time to canonize some of the more brilliant, but routine, innovations and insights that have surfaced in the forum and carve them in the stone of a FAQs section.