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...
Minggu, 12 Desember 2010
Minggu, 28 November 2010
Hatch and Cockpit
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...
Rabu, 24 November 2010
Cockpit and Hatch
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...
Minggu, 31 Oktober 2010
Internal Glass Sheathing
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...
Sabtu, 23 Oktober 2010
Glassing the Deck
Deck SheathingThe deck has finally got completed and glassed today. The decorative stripes have been formed with some yellow pine and by selecting some...
Minggu, 03 Oktober 2010
Bear Mountain Kayak
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...
Kamis, 30 September 2010
Hurley 2470 Sailing
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...
