The start of a great adventure. With Ron's help, I think anyone can build a kayak.

Each strip is placed with care being sure to match colour and grain pattern on both sides.

A friend-David Russell- offers a helping hand.

The shorter strips get easier to handle as you close in the hull.

You close over one side then chisel the midline to create the correct space for the second side.

Use saved matching strrips of wood, you close in the hull.

Almost closed in, the final few strips require additional shaping.

Finally, after spokeshaving and sanding, the fibreglas cloth and epoxy cover the hull.

Now sand,sand, and sand some more!!!!!!!!!!!

Here, we eased the hull off the station molds.

This IS a two man job..

Now, I wonder if we have to scrape and sand some more?

The answer is YES! (but) not until the molds are placed in the hull section to allow us to build the deck.

The molds are the same as we used for making the hull except they are turned right side up.

Building the deck seemed to go faster.Choosing the strips is the creative part making each kayak look unique.

With cockpit holes and hatches cut, we used a sprayer to save a LOT of time over hand brushing.

The spray finishing saved me a lot of hours especially travel time. Check out the bird's eye maple trim on the cockpit coaming!

We still had a few hours of work adding on all the fittings.