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Concrete Canoe

2013 Canoe Prep: Mold & Reinforcement

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Finishing up the mold and preparing the reinforcement the night before pour day:

  • The mold after the second stage of sanding.
  • We eventually realized that the mold glue bonded best vertically.
  • Waiting for glue to dry so we can tape the bigger mold chunks together… the cinder blocks help apply pressure to bond the mold
  • Arranging the mold into pour-position
  • The positioned canoe mold is taped together
  • We needed to do some final sanding to account for the adjustments from the mold block positioning changes after gluing
  • Laying out reinforcement
  • We went with two layers of reinforcement, three layers of concrete this time
  • One layer is positioned the long way in two big overlayed strips, the other in seven smaller strips across
Concrete Canoe

Endless hours of canoe-pour prep…

Aside

It actually takes more time to get the canoe ready for pour day than it does to pour it. Excluding the mix design (which obviously takes a lot of effort), preparing the mold is our biggest pre-pour task this year. Once we cut the rough shape from styrofoam blocks, we need to sand them into the more accurate shape, then glue most of the mold pieces together, tape the rest together, and do some final sanding.