coucal Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) Ravenswood, frames and coaming in hoop pine ply, stringers in WRC, polyester skin bought from the Kudzu store finished with clear Aquacote 2-part polyurethane. Mr Horton's book is right - I was so desperate to get the boat in the water during the last bit of fitout it almost sent me crazy. Then it was suddenly finished, and I just stood around looking at it, putting off and putting off the 'flotation trials'... Boat on the car. I really wanted that translucent finish. Edited January 20, 2018 by coucal added more pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucal Posted January 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 First trials in the Yarra. Very fast and comfortable - actually, the rate at which the boat accelerated from the first stroke of the paddle was a bit of a shock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kudzu Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Great job. Love the finish. One of these days, if I have reskin I will probably do a finish like that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtoepony Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 Hi Coucal, Your kayak looks fantastic. I am about to build a stonefly canoe and am wondering if I can get the fabric in Melbourne. I see you bought your fabric from the kudzu store. Is that economic? and did you get your finish from the kudzu store too. Thanks Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucal Posted July 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 Hi Tony, Sorry I didn't get back to you about the skin, but if that's your Stonefly on the Yarra in the launching pages it looks like everything worked out perfectly - it looks great. For the record, I potentially could have saved some money buying local (as ever in Australia, postage is a killer) but given my experiments trying to buy local sinew (I had to try three times from three different suppliers to find sinew that looked good and didn't snap) I was worried that I'd waste time and money buying something, finding it wasn't quite right, then buying a replacement. I bought the Aquacote finish online from Boatcraft Pacific in Sydney. What did you use? Cheers, Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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