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.