Old Canoe Complete Restoration! // Lift Arc Builds

Welcome back to Lift Arc Studios! This week we have longer video to share with you all that's a little different than our normal projects! Tay recently bought an old fiberglass canoe from a local consignment shop. It was a great deal, but it also came with a lot of damage and a lot of problems! So in order to get this thing back on the water before the summer ends, Tay and his girlfriend Courtney team up to patch it up and make it pretty!
This episode is quite a bit longer than our normal videos so it doesn't have as much of the fancy editing, but we still hope you watch it all the way through to see just how well it turned out! Have you ever done any work on boats / watercraft? How do you think we did on this restoration? Let us know in the comments down below!
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[@o1420]

What fun video to make and your canoe looks awesome! But hafta say the ending was epic! "Uh guys, CANOE is floating away"😂 thanks for sharing!!❤

[@explorermike19]

Ya... I used to glam up my canoes like this too. Here are suggestions for doing it better that I learned the hard way: 1. fill holes, dents, nicks with marine putty and sand before applying fiberglass and resin. 2. Only use marine grade resin like West System. Don't use automotive resin like Bondo that you get at the hardware store. The automotive grade stuff yellows, gets brittle, and will eventually release from the repaired area. 3. Paint the boat the same color as the original. Eventually, the new paint will get worn and scratched and show the original color and look awful.

[@lent4943]

The fiberglass cloth you used is called just that...fiberglass cloth. The other that you did not use is called matting. Matting is used for strength and is then covered with the cloth.

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hello Tay & Courtney, A good job done there... You should have fun with the canoe in the future... Take care. Paul,,

[@mrdddeeezzzweldor5039]

Just going back through the archives. This is a nice departure from Lift Arc machine and fabrication work. The addition of an additional face makes it all the better.

[@MrRoscoj]

Always makes my day when I can watch a new lift arc video! Nice job guys and congrats on the 3k!

[@erichanly2749]

I think the name should be Lift Hawk.

[@mikecurtis2585]

Looks great turned out very nice. Thanks 😊🙏

[@shaunburke]

As someone who’s never done this and has absolutely no idea how to do it, good job!

[@charleshill506]

Nice job. Fiberglass is wonderful stuff. I fixes a lot of problems and covers lots of problems. I would have sprayed the inside flat gray if it were mine though.

[@m.rei85]

Cool project, nice work.👍

[@aresp2707]

Well it looks like the boat loves it too judging by the way it was taking off without y'all! 😄 This is my first time on your channel, Great Video.

[@evdoby]

Hey, Tay. Use whatever makes your boat float.

[@LiftArcStudios]

AH HAAAAAAA

[@Thestripper1]

Try cutting the cloth on the bias next time you are doing bow and stern keel strips. It will lay down much easier and it will not fray or spread strands then.

[@jonathankr]

Sorry, can you explain that to someone who is a new to this?

[@Thestripper1]

@@jonathankr Cutting glassfiber strips from the roll, the first inclination is to simply cut off a strip as wide as you want it and then glass it on your canoe. However, If you look at the fiber direction of the cloth you will se that some strands run lengthwise of the fabric and others run across. So if you simply cut off a strip from that you will be left with a strip that has fibers running lengthwise and across. If instead, you first cut off your cloth at a 45 degree angle and then cut you strips from that new 45 degree edge. You will then get strips that have fibers running in 45 degrees in relation to your strips length direction. This type of strip is called Bias cut strip and they will conform over shapes and stay down a lot easier. Puh... I hope that made sense.

[@andrewdowns4803]

Roanoke!

[@SchysCraftCo.]

Very nice job tray. Turned out very well there. Can't wait to see what you fix up next. And make next. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend tray. Keep making. God bless.

[@chrisbranson7045]

I think the name is ...... drum roll....Canoe it again!

[@craiggardner5347]

nice restoration. now go have fun

[@patzwahl8341]

What type of paint did you use and how much did it take ? Thank You !!

[@raysanders332]

Where did you buy the cushions?

[@jasonintheforest7936]

What kind of paint did you use to paint the canoe.

[@Rooster8618]

How much paint did you end up using? I have a canoe like yours I would like to restore.

[@FrankRuiz66]

She's too cute.. Did you keep her?

[@joebert889]

How about life jackets?

[@zanderchiasson8064]

15:54 *ahem* phrasing.

[@davidgiesfeldt6650]

The mullet

[@kennedymw]

Canoe looks good guys. Too bad you didn't have a drone for the river shots, eh Tay?

[@LiftArcStudios]

Thanks for bringing that up Mike...

[@cferguson3368]

Do you use a ventilation system of some kind to pull particles out of air?

[@LiftArcStudios]

We have a...fan...at the back of the building haha. Thankfully im not sanding fiberglass every day, we would need a different shop setup all together haha. Cheers! - Tay

[@MJennifer]

Shoulda been called the mullet!

[@broncodude6299]

Either relabel as a Mohawk or nothing at all. Faux hawk doesn’t work 🤦‍♂️

[@LiftArcStudios]

Noted!

[@Nick-ih5em]

So have you married her yet?