OK,  just a quick web page with a few kayak building pictures........may take a minute to load as I've crammed all the pictures onto this one page.  Sorry for the inconvenience,  I hope you'll stick around and check it out anyway.

Putting the hull together in my $20 hoop house.....it wasn't home sweet home but it served it's purpose

Is it any wonder this whole contraption fell apart not even a week later under snow and wind load?  The middle sawhorse collapsed and turned the kayak into a big banana.  I was sure that was the end of the process until the good folks on the building forum picked me up,  brushed me off and told me to go fix it and finish my boat.  Thanks....a lot. 

How about a two tone hull?  Oops,  orient your wood twice,  cut once....oh well first extremely noticeable mistake.

This was before I started working on that day....I managed to run my interior fillets which were absolutely the wrong consistency and very sloppy.  But they did work.  I was still viewing the interior of the kayak as the "learning part" and didn't sweat it.  

Jumping ahead to April.....and the hoop house is history.  I cover the work each night with three tarps and my PVC clamps.  I have fixed all the sawhorses.  No more cracked kayak hulls!

I borrowed my neighbor's sidewalk for a little picture taking.

Jumping ahead to July.........chose the wrong scanning resolution but you get the point.

An interesting situation developed just prior to these pictures being taken and it had a very unexpected effect on the boat.  I'm sure you see it...how could you miss it?  Just check out the rest of the pictures you'll see it again.

Here are a few coaming riser pictures with the nail guides showing (from late August)....

OK, so how about we bring this thing up to the present date?.....September 2nd......

I assure you we have not just warped back in time to March 2000.

Ah,  there's that big ugly center fillet.  It's amazing how much better it looked once I cleaned it up a little and did the taping and clothing of the cockpit.  I am still working on the bottom portion of the coaming riser here,  my neighbor lent me his Dremel sander to help out as well as his digital camera to capture these latest developments..

Well that's all the pictures for now.  I promise to develop those coaming in progress pictures soon.  You'll get a kick out of my "nail pathway" that I used to help bend and keep the lip in place.

Until next time,  happy paddling and building!