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Started putting together my kayak after a winter of lofting, cutting out frames, and scarfing stringers. This'll be my second build, did my son's Shad last year and I'm doing Jeff's Nimrod design for my own kayak.

 

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Will start lashing tomorrow and hopefully hit the water by June.

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Lisa's built what, 3 boats, and you gentlemen 11 and 12! Need  to increase my production a little I think. Have a few hulls in mind from Harvey Golden's book I'd like to do as fuselage frame in the future but don't think I'll get over 6 or 7 total kayaks, unless other family members get the bug and want help building.

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Harvey Golden's book is so cool. I love the big Cadillac style stems and sterns some of those boats have.

They key to building lots of boats is to build small, simple boats, have lots of friends or extended family members to give them to, and very little ambition to watch TV.

In my case, it has helped that I never had a "real" job, but have always made things for money. I've pretty much tinkered and drawn my way through life, somehow, and boats are just so fun to build compared to chairs or boxes.

I try to do one, or maybe two, a year.

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  • 5 weeks later...

Just a little update, only 4 lashings to go and we can come off the strongback and get to oiling the frame!

 

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Spent a long while looking at the peaked deck and decided to do something different, we'll see how it looks after it gets skinned.

 

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Love the sheer's upsweep toward the bow, which I think my new deck will accentuate.

 

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Doesn't look like I'll be splashing her by the end of the month like I'd hoped but the skinning should be done by then.

 

 

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

Now that our daily temps have dropped from the 100's back into the 90's I finally finished oiling the frame and installed the floors. FROG time! Was starting to wonder if I would get to this point by summer's end or not. Will install footrests this evening and then it's on to skinning.

 

Frame weight is 27 lbs even, was a little surprised by this as I didn't think I'd added that much weight. Wood was really dry and did absorb alot of oil on the first coat; used almost an entire quart for 1 coat vs my son's Shad where we did all 3 coats from 1 quart. That and two partial stringers plus an extra frame might account for most of it.

 

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Twenty seven pounds. What is that, laminated granite? ;)

Could you ever go back to a heavy, noisy plasticky boat again?

Your frame looks nice.

Our cooling spell is over, and we're back into the 100s again here, which is normal. The teens are what really get you!

Of course, if I worked inside in conditioned air, I might not care, or even notice...

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Can't build just one?  I can't even build one, it seems.  This year's excuse is a landscaping fail (which the previous owner put in), from the torrential rains this spring.  About a ton of small stone that were once the front yard ditch, are now down the hill in the back yard.  My boat fund got spent on bringing 8 tons (so far) of boulders in, to make what I hope will be permanent "fixes".  But, this phase of the project, which still involves a ditch along side the house, and doing something with the pile of debris in the back yard, will soon be over. There will be time (and cooler days) ahead, when I can turn my attention to a Firefly...days when it's just too darned cold to be down on my knees working with quickcrete.  (Yes, we do get some cold weather in NWA).

 

I've been a lurker here for a couple of years now, and hope to be ordering my supplies, just as soon as Jeff gets in a new stock of 11 oz polyester.  Then, like so many here, I'll be like a proud papa, showing off my new baby!  Something that will be a lot more fun than working with...er...ballast.

 

On the good side, when the rains come again, I may have the perfect playground for whitewater kayaking!!  :blink:  :lol:

 

Lon in NWArkansas

 

 

 

 

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