Launch!
(The rest of the launch day set is up on flickr.)
The boat is now joined, reinforced, bulkheaded. It is architecturally complete. And it has a name (suggested by my dad, in fine How I Met My Wife fashion).
I’ll let the epoxy cure while I’m in New Zealand, then return to varnish the boat and complete my quiver of paddles.
Fireflies are blanketing the hill down to the lake as I write this.
I got the boat back into the shop about a week ago, then pretty quickly tackled two of the more daunting aspects of the project. First was the cockpit. I cut the hole, installed the coaming wall, epoxied on the rim, [...]
The kayak has pretty well taken shape, though the two halves spent the last week orbiting each other as the layers of fiberglass went on. As I write this, the final coat of epoxy is drying on the last major surface. (The hull will be strategically reinforced at some point in the future.) [...]
After two productive days of fiberglassing, I hit the doldrums. Hoisting and flipping the boat went well enough, but getting the first strips onto the deck turned out to be quite difficult. I tried the sheer strips first, then the center strips first, then hot glue, then the sheer strips with a confusing [...]
The Boat
I’m glad I started over on the hull. Everything was better the second time through - the wood, the proportions, my workmanship. I replaced stations 1 and 16, moved the bow and stern assembly inward and lofted a spine to hold the forms in a truer position. I closed up the [...]
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