I trimmed the over hanging strips today and planed the edge down to within an eigth inch of final size. I will do the final shaping of the deck when it gets joined with the hull. Also got the ROS out and sanded the front half of the deck with 60 grit to [...]

No pics tonight but I’ll certainly have a few tomorrow night.
The gunwales and deck ridge are all glued and everything is taped and bungeed up for the night. There were a couple places that I had to pull the gunwales in to close a gap. I hope they don’t pull out once I [...]

Got the last strip on the deck, that means no more stripping, I can now go to sanding and glassing! First strip went on on May 12th, final strip on May 31st!! I really set a new personal time record for this one. The side of the cockpit area ended up being [...]

Here’s a pic of the strip I put on this morning, it bridges between the front and back parts of the deck at the side of the cockpit.  This is going to be a very fragile area until it is glassed and the coaming riser is glassed on.  I think it will be 2 or [...]

I had to shape the bow and stern a bit. I sanded the bow down and wet it slightly to see the grain, here’s a picture. The book-marked strips on either side of the center strip came out pretty nice. I book-mark matched each pair of strips I put on. About [...]

i want to watch the full movie of sucker punch
Finished up the bow and stern yesterday and the chines late last night. Tonight I’ll knock it all apart and finish up sanding a few rough spots before I start gluing it together. Hannah was disappointed to hear that I’d have to take it [...]

It’s starting to look more like a kayak. My daughter is getting anxious to try it out. You can see Kaner in the background. He helped me all day by carrying scrap wood out in the yard and dropping a tennis ball at my feet.
I ran into my first bit of a [...]

Good to see Anton got the bug, now there’s no hope for him.
I’ve put 11 Strips on the deck, it’s starting to take shape. Can start to see the lines a bit better. I put a redwood strip down for the middle, flanked by 3 red cedar and then another redwood, [...]

Geetings, this is Anton, Tony’s little boy. I figured since my own blog was mostly about geeky things I’d post about kayak buildin’ over here.
I attended the Texas Kayak Builder’s Bash in Huntsville this spring and got bit by the kayak bug. Since I need to keep this on the cheap and I’m [...]

I got the kayak turned over and have started on the deck. I had to rip some more strips this morning then mill the beads and coves. Got started on the stripping about noon and now have 7 strips full length. I’m stripping this one from the middle out and just letting [...]