How to Repair a Canoe Hole Using Pine Pitch

How to Fix and patch a Hole in a Canoe if you get stranded without any duct tape or a patch kit. This is a great temporary fix that everyone should know.
I get stranded on an island and have to repair my canoe by patching a hole in it - using only natural materials - in this case, pine resin / pitch.
#canoe #holeincanoe #diyrepair
Also, if you want to learn how to Flip a Canoe if it's taken on water - check out this video here!
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00:00 How to Patch a Canoe
00:15 Step 1: Find the Right Tree
00:25 Step 2: Find Resin Patches
00:35 Step 3: Collect the Resin Chunks
00:45 Step 4: Build Your Fire
01:03 Step 5: Making Pine Pitch Glue
01:29 Step 6: Applying The Patch
02:22 BONUS: How To Flip A Canoe
Learn how to fix a hole in your canoe with no patch kit using birch tar glue! This DIY repair method is easy and effective for fixing your canoe on the go.

[@ChrisFar]

Great piece of knowledge anyone venturing into the Backcountry with a canoe should know!! Great vid👌

[@bubbaleon]

Good stuff, as a more permanent fix I’ve used pieces of a HDPE 5 gallon bucket, melted than spread on both sides.

[@TheBearEssentials]

Great tip!

[@haifutter4166]

Sadly, it is quite easy to find HDPLE in nature too.

[@bubbaleon]

@@haifutter4166agreed, where I live there’s a 30 mile stretch of freeway that oddly has so many buckets littered along the way. I’m sure at some point they make their way in to a creek and eventually the wilderness.

[@haifutter4166]

@@bubbaleon In Germany we have a deposit system for plastic bottles, which is why they aren't as ubiquitous, but you still find them now and them. Main problem is, that imported water bottles e.g. from Turkey are deposit free, so some people are too lazy to dispose of them properly.

[@edarddragon]

short and to the point great!

[@TheBearEssentials]

Just straight info on this one haha! No messin around

[@Universal.G]

Cool thanks man. I didn't know about the charcoal part. I thought you were going to use birch bark. Cool stuff.

[@TheBearEssentials]

You bet - birch bark in combination with this for a bigger hole - or (i haven't tried it - but birch tar works well im told) - is that what you use?

[@felix-eeee]

glad to see that you made an individual video on this, nice puukko by the way

[@PdenBrinker]

Good video 👍👍👍

[@TheBearEssentials]

Thank you 👍

[@NiklavsSprogis]

So cool!

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

Greetings from Viêt Nam❤❤❤

[@dominiquegreen9925]

Love this vid! Good knowledge for the tool box

[@TheBearEssentials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BushcraftingBogan]

Note to self: Throw a pack of J.B. Weld in the backpack

[@TheBearEssentials]

100%

[@billsedutto8824]

Or Flex tape.

[@TheBearEssentials]

Oh flex tape would be a real lightweight easy option to bring with ya!

[@db.mc2]

Thanks DJ! 👊🏻👍🏻God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you brother!

[@mattlast4093]

great great video

[@nikoslav]

02:07 that's what she said

[@davidpatrick1813]

I need to have a canoe first .. interesting none the less.

[@journeyman7189]

Great tip and how too. DJ but I have to ask, how did you damage the canoe? Nate

[@TheBearEssentials]

I put a hole in it myself to test and demonstrate how to fix it. This was a canoe in rough shape to begin with that someone didn’t want anymore. So I took the opportunity to do it! (It’s not my main tripping canoe)

[@journeyman7189]

@@TheBearEssentials For science!

[@lucamosca3443]

what knot do you suggest to fix an hammock on a tree?...thanks for your videos

[@TheBearEssentials]

There’s a whole bunch you can do, any anchor knot really, a solid one is the Bowline

[@robintheoutside]

Maybe a silly question ... but does it matter if the canoe is wet (say it's raining)? Will it still bind?

[@TheBearEssentials]

That’s a good question, and honestly I don’t know the answer to it - I dried it all out before doing this. I would say it probs will work with worse results? But that’s a guess

[@unquiche]

If only The Professor would have known this, he could have gotten them off the island so much sooner. The one time he attempted it, his glue wasn’t waterproof.