Sanding the deck

All the sanding is finished now. First I sanded it with

80 grit, then finished it off with 120. The sand paper I used

was called Mirka Gold, it really takes the wood off fast.

Next, I need to put some putty in a couple cracks

and do a fine sand. Then it'll be about ready for the

fiberglass!

Finished!! after four and a half hours,

25 sanding disks and some clogged sinus's

Half finished the sanding!

Before starting to sand. It looks really gunky :D

All out!! Over 1000 staples and 4 hours of pulling :)

Now Im almost ready to start sanding the deck. First Im

going to hot glue the deck down to the hull. That way when I

sand and fiberglass it, I can be sure the deck will fight nicely

to the hull when its all finished.

Time to take out all the staples! In this picture all
the staples are jacked up. First I pop them all up with a sharp
screwdriver, then us pliers to pull them all the way out.

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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.