Kayak Progress (Initial sanding done)

The deck and hull after initial sanding and filling, and then some more sanding.

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The following two shots show some spots on the hull that did not work out very well. I tried using some of the yellow cedar sanding dust with glue to fill some low spots. As you can see they yellowed so I'm not really happy with that. I'll have to do something with it before fibre glassing.

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Kayak Progress (the last few days)

The following two shots show the deck after all the strips have been added.

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This shows after starting to remove the staples.

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Staples removed on deck.

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The next two shots show the hull with staples and then without staples.

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This shot is after doing the initial sanding on the hull.

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Kayak Progress

Here are a few shots showing progress over the last couple of days.

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From the front looking towards the back.

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From the front looking towards the back.

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From the back looking towards the front.

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 The piece of wood is tied down to apply pressure in order to keep the strips snug against the centre strip while the glue dries.

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From the back looking towards the front.

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Kayak Progress

I continued stripping the deck today. I decided to add a simple pattern by adding 1 yellow cedar strip on each side, shown below.

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Then I added a yellow cedar strip down the centre. I will fill in the rest with red cedar. The photo below shows a block tied down. This was done to hold the strip down because the bow curves up at this point and the staples will not hold it. If it doesn't hold the shape when I take it off I will glue the next strips in and then tie it again until the glue dries.

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The next photo shows the centre strip, from the stern, but not cut and glued in yet. I didn't get this one in today but thought I would show what it will look like.

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It is hard to really get a sense of the shape from this perspective in the photos. It looks more like the bottom of the kayak instead of the top.

Kayak Progress

I prepared a couple of cradles and temporarily taped them to the hull in order to flip the whole thing over and start stripping the deck.

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And here it is flipped over.

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The next couple of shots show the first few rows started on the deck.

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Kayak Project (hull strips done)

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