Stripping the deck

The top is completly finished now! After the staples

are pulled, sanding starts. After fiberglassing the deck

The cockpit opening will be recut slightly smaller than

the origional cut.

Now I borrowed a stapler from Shane! The tops all finished

now besides the cockpit recess!

Now what!? My stapler broke!! Hopefully the top will be

finished by the end of the week.

The wood came, so I started filling in the last couple

spots!

While I was waiting for the wood, I cut out the

cockpit and starting filling it.

Opps!! Had a split to fix!

I've run out of white cedar strips now :(

Only needed like 10 more. So they're ordered and

hopefully will be here by Friday.

ran out of staples...

Start filling in the blanks...

BTW, if you ever do this, get Chraftsmen staples.

Not stanly or arrow or others. All the other brands

that I've tried bend like rubber.

Now its flipped over and ready to start stripping the

top. When I flipped it over, some of the forms popped out

so I hot glued them back in. On the last kayak I built, the

strongback stayed in the kayak until the end of the building

process. On this one it used a different style of strongback

which comes out after building and glassing the hull. But the

forms stay in.

Glassing the hull

Third coat of epoxy. It looks like it needs a bit of

sanding.

OK, now the second coat of epoxy is on. Its starting to shine a bit. It looks like

it will need some sanding :(

All done! Now I wait a couple hours and put

on the next coat.

Half finished! The first coat of epoxy won't be too shiny,

but after the 3rd it'll look nice!

Its starting to turn clear...

All the sanding is done, so the next step is to

fiberglass the outside of the hull. The fiberglass is a

cloth of glass which turns hard and clear when I put

epoxy on it.

Sanding The Hull

The sander part came today. The velcro pad that the sandpaper sticks

to was worn out. Now its ready for the fiberglass.

Maybe tomorrow if the weathers nice.

All the putty is on and once the sanding's finished,

hopefully this week, I can put the fiberglass on the hull.

I brought the kayak outside to sand it.

When I was about 3/4 the way done, the velcro

pad on my sander that holds on the sand paper

became un-velcroed. The sandpaper wont stick to it.

So while Im waiting for the new one to come,

I patched in the couple open joints with epoxy putty.

After the bow and stem pieces were glued on,

I planed down all the extra wood. Hand planing for an hour give you

blisters :D

Time log

How long does it take?

Heres all the times and what I've done:::

Ordering the stuff: 2 hours

Febuary 15 Put all the forms on the strongback

2.5 hours

Febuary 16 finished installing center forms

.75 hours

Febuary 17 intalled stem and bow forms

.75 hours

Febuary 22 built the laminated internal stem and bow pieces

.5 hours

Febuary 23 built the external stem and bow pieces

1 hour

All ready to put the wood on

Febuary 25 started striping the hull

4 hours

Febuary 26 finished striping the hull

5 hours

Febuary 27 pulled like 1000 staples from the hull!

3 hours

March 1 glued on the external stem and bow pieces

.25 hours

Sanding

March 2 started sanding

3.5 hours

March 4 sanding, sander broke

.5 hours

March 8 putting putty on

.3 hours

March 10 sanders fixed! finished sanding hull

3 hours

March 10 cut out fiberglass cloth

.5 hours

March 11 epoxied 2 coats

2 hours

March 12 epoxied 3rd coat on hull

.5 hours

Started the Striping the Deck

March 13 flipped the kayak over, started striping the deck

3 hours

March 15 striped deck

1.5 hours

March 16 striped the deck

1.5 hours

March 18 striped the deck

2 hours

March 19 striped the deck

2 hours

March 20 striped the deck

3 hours

March 22 cut out cockpit recess

.5 hours

April 8 worked on stripping the deck

1 hour

April 10 finished stipping the deck!!!!

2 hours

April 12 finished cockpit recess

3 hours

Sanding the Deck

April 13 pulled all the deck staples

4.25 hours

April 15 sanded the deck

4.5 hours

57.3 so far!

April 19 finished sanding!!!

1 hour

Glassing the Deck

April 19 Glassed the deck

1.5 hours

April 20 Second coat of epoxy on deck

.5 hours

April 21 3rd coat of epoxy on deck

.25 hours

April 22 put on the cockpit coaming

1 hour

April 23 sanded!!!

4 hours

May 4 Glassed the interior of the deck

2 hours

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forgot to count

put fiberglass inside the deck.

cut hatches.

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May 8 Took out the forms and scraped the glue from the hull

1 hour

June 1 Sanded the hull

2 hour

June 3 Sanded some more

1 hour

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ready to glass hull now

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June 4 glassed inside of hull

1 hour

June 5 cut hatches, 2nd coat of epoxy in hull and deck int. .

put on bolts for foot braces

5 hours

External stem and bow

Glueing on the external stem and bow pieces.

Silica thickened epoxy (sorry for bad spelling :D)

was used to hold on these pieces, the some clamps and

tape. Only took like 20 mins.