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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