If you have a canoe that you like the lines of you could use it for
your plug by pulling off the gunwhales. bracing it on the inside and
polishing it smooth


I saw someone do this. They used a factory canoe for a male mold and
split the bow of the new canoe with a knife then drew it off like a
banana skin. Then they taped it back together and surfaced it.
You can use clear packing tape for a release tape. There's a blue
paste wax you can smear on it if you want. (it might be called Part
All), Happy paddling.


A group of us did this many years ago. But we braced the mold and
built in the parting line before we laid up the glass for the mold.
Worked just fine.

However, when we molded our first canoe, it bonded to the mold.
The combination of a fresh epoxy mold and the release wax we
used didn't work. Had to build a second mold. We were lucky
we didn't bond the mold to the original canoe.