kayak

Inspired by the wooden kayak cradles made by Ross Leidy, I decided to try and make some myself. BTW, check out Ross’s great website.

I made some good progress with the kayak last week. I put in fillets and taped all the seams on the underside of the deck.

Call me crazy, but I decided to try and use black epoxy for the deck seams. The materials involve black pigment and microfibres from Fiber-Tek.

It’s been a busy week with the kayak. I’ve managed to do the saturation coat, lay the fibreglass and do the first fill coat.

I just received the newest MEC catalogue and I saw a picture of someone sea kayaking amongst icebergs. I’m thinking that would be pretty interesting.

Gluing the seams isn’t as straightforward as you would think. From what I’ve learned (and I could be doing it incorrectly), gluing the seams involves:

I’m ready to glue the kayak hull. Click on the album below to find out more…

Building the Pygmy Coho has some good tips for S&G kayak building. Here’s a tip that I wished I had noticed earlier: “I cut a plastic cup to match the length of the stitching wires.

I started stitching the panels on the Tern14 the other night. I hadn’t done much work on the boat recently, and it was good to get into the shop and make some progress.

I finished the last butt joints tonight. My last 4 or 6 joints were significantly improved over the first ones. The finishes are smoother and I did them with less work.