The trouble with winter boat building is it gets cold at night, just as we are ready to glue!My solution is some bent water pipe, a sheet of polythene...
Hatch and Cockpit
Minggu, 28 November 2010
The frame is shaped and sanded up using the hatch as the pattern. It will eventually get glued back under the kayak deck, to form a lip to take the hatch...
Cockpit and Hatch
Rabu, 24 November 2010
The cockpit shape is carefully marked out over the deck in exactly the right position (I hope!)A jigsaw has made light work of forming the two holesThe...
Internal Glass Sheathing
Minggu, 31 Oktober 2010
The two halves now fully sheathed in glassThe resin is added and once again the cedar shows through the glass.The glass cloth gets laid out along the...
Glassing the Deck
Sabtu, 23 Oktober 2010
Deck SheathingThe deck has finally got completed and glassed today. The decorative stripes have been formed with some yellow pine and by selecting some...
Bear Mountain Kayak
Minggu, 03 Oktober 2010
Time for another boat build!On and off through the summer we have been working on building a 16'6" Resolute strip plank kayak from the Bear Mountain design...
Hurley 2470 Sailing
Kamis, 30 September 2010
Somewhere between sailing on an Oyster 55 this summer (see Artic Circle Sailing) and my recent addition of a home built sailing canoe, there sits my trusty...
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