Varnishing!

These two pictures have 2 coats on. Its starting to shine a bit more!

So, now I've started varnishing the hull! This picture has 1 coat on. Eventually, there will be about 6 coats.

Final Sanding!!

Today I spent 4.5 hours sanding! It went a bit quicker than I had thought, but still forever!! So now there is 1 little spot on the cockpit coaming that I had to put a dot of epoxy on which needs sanded. Otherwise, everything is ready to be varnished.

I'm planning on brushing 3 coats of varnish and then spraying on the last 3 or 4. It should be like glass. The pictures look white and dust because it is.. :) Its white because of the glass in it. Try sanding a window in your house and it will turn white too. But as soon as the varnish touches it the wood looks awesome.

Cockpit coaming lip

As of now, the cockpit coaming has fiberglass on it and needs sanding. I still

need to put in the endpours, which is basically just a big glob of epoxy poured

down the bow and stern to strengthen it and creat a spot for grab handles. Then

once everything is sanded, I ready to varnish!!

Heres a picture of the seam between the deck and hull. After 1 more

coat of epoxy, this will be ready to sand down.

Today I started the cockpit coaming! There are 12 strips about 3/16

epoxied around the cockpit coaming. All the clamps are holding them on..

Pad eyes, Taping inside seam

Here the pad eye loop is in temporarily.

In this picture you can see the little holes that I cut for the hatch straps.

Little loops are stuck through and siliconed in.

I can't decide if I should put a bungie strap in front of the cockpit or not..

What do you think?

In the top and bottom of this picture you can kind of see the fiberglass

tape. Its clear though.

Awesome weather out, so work outside! Today I fiberglassed the inside

seam to hold the deck and hull together. Its on the side so that the 2 inch

fiberglass tape wont slide down the hull while it is drying.

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Hatches, Footbraces, Deck and Hull

Almost finished taping..

The deck and hull are connected with 2 inch fiberglass tape. It's best
to tape the 2 pieces of the kayak together, and then fiberglass the inside first.
That way the 2 pieces will line up very nicely.

The deck and hull are ready to be connected!!!

In this picture and the next one above, the hatches are finished.

They came out very smooth!

After the hatches were cut out, I taped them up with wax paper. Then

hotglued and taped them back in. With the deck upside down, I put on

the 5 layers of fiberglass.

4 layers of fiberglass and a bit of thicked epoxy are used to

make the hatch recess lip. It'll be trimmed back to 3/4 -1 inch.

Inside of the hull is all fiberglassed!!

The foot braces are held on with 1.5 inch head bolts. Fiberglass and epoxy

holds on the bolts, that way no bolts are showing outside the hull.

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