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Bear Mountain Boats: Example of Customer Built Boats

  • Barry "bear" Taylor - Redbird

    st wanted to say thanks for all the help. have two of your books and the info has been invaluable during construction of my canoe. ok, i'll admitt ...
  • Neil and Lisa - 16' Prospector

    Hi Ted and Joan, My husband and I built the 16' Prospector?together. It was a perfect way for us to remember that we can work together to accompli...
  • Ben Bol - Redbird

    Dear friends at the Bear-Mountain Boat shop. Several years ago I have build the redbird canoe from the "canoecraft" book, and I am using it every ...
  • Trevor Farrell - Canoe

    I found your book excellent and self-explanitory. We built the conoe over 5 weekends... I had the help of my father and a friend. I used it for the...
  • Tom Friedel - Prospector

    Mr Ted Moores, Having spent many years in Canada and done lots of canoeing, I was always a fan of the cedar strip construction ....and especially t...
  • Wes Huether - Redbird

    Hi Ted and the rest of the team. I just came across your web site as a result of an add in My home workshop magazine. I went to your site and low a...
  • Jamie Zaroski - Redbird

    Hi, just thought I would send you guys a couple of pictures of two water craft I built from your plans. The canoe is a redbird but modified to 16 ...
  • Phil Hart - Freedom 17

    Dear Bear Mountain folks, This is for you satisfied customer file. In 1968 I took my first trip to the BWCA with a college friend. I was 19. A few ...
  • Patrick Angier - Canadien

    Thought you ,might be interested in the attached - I built FifiKate 10 years ago to your Canoecraft plans for a Peterbrough - I think now renamed ...
  • Houston Shirk - Canoe

    I am writing to thank you for writing a damn good book! When your book arrived, and I saw the cover photo, I was inspired to a higher level of cra...
  • John Goodell - Prospector

    Bought a copy of canoecraft over 10 years ago and finally built the prospector. He it is... red cedar with poplar accent strip that turned green -...
  • Clayton Plunkett - Prospector Ranger

    Hello from Clayton Plunkett. I was given a set of plans from my sister about a year ago as a gift. I then built my first strip canoe it is a 15 fo...