376 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
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3 hours. 2 sheets of cheap CDX 3/8” plywood, 10 1×2s, 2 2×2s, a sheet of plastic, 2 tubes of caulk, a bunch of deck screws, a few nails, some rope, some ductape, a few other details. Hand tools only, except for battery powered drill/drivers. And then you race.
An amazing day out at the end of April in Bodega Bay here in Sonoma County in Northern California, I highly recommend coming out for it, either as a contestant (and this two-year winner is thinking about ways to appro...
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1162 days ago
by Mark Edmondson |
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I found a Web site that has software to design a stitch and glue kayak. Once your design is complete, you send the file to the company, which charges you to render the plan into a template, then sends you an image file to print off.
Here is the link: http://www.washingtonwoodcraft.com/home.html
Has anyone done this? Because I want to , but I’m interested in seeing some detail pictures of the seams before I commit to building a boat this way.
Thanks!
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1750 days ago
by psolver1 |
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One important lesson i experienced this evening is to sand your clamping blocks well before using them on the molds to clamp the strips. I was in the middle of gluing a strip on and clamping it in place when i received a particularly nasty splinter from one of the clamping blocks. Stopping to remove a splinter in the middle of a glue up is exceptionally inconvenient.
I am using the old puppy dewormer syringe application technique for my strips, about 20 cc for a 17 foot strip seems to...
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1776 days ago
by psolver1 |
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I’m now developing my computer skills at the request of a photo journal of the kayak.
Redwood 2×6’s reclaimed from a warehouse in California.
Became 2,800 linear feat of redwood bead and cove for my wife to be’s Kayak.
So i set up the molds on my front porch.
Laminated the Stems
Set up the Stems
And started laying planks.
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1777 days ago
by psolver1 |
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wow! 1:30 am i knew “i’m not going to bed until i get at least one plank on” was not a healthy statement. that comes from lots of experience. however, i just glued the first plank in place. with 16 station molds and two stem molds my imagination was stretched to come up with roughly 40 clamping positions. a combination of lead drafting ducks, bungee chords, c clamps, and spring clamps are holding the first strake in place. now the worst part about working late. going ba...
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