: Rob,
: Thanks everyone for the response, I will put some heaters down there to help
: dry things out some. Can I remove the hull from the strongback and start
: stripping the deck before I seal the hull or will this make things worse?
: I am building your North Star. I hate just to sit around for 4 days before
: I leave. I could have the deck finished in that time, and seal both when I
: get back. I am on a time frame as I will be getting ready to move to
: Florida as soon as I get back.

: This leads me to a new question, at what stage will the boat be ready to ship
: or travel on the roof? How do I pack it? I don't know if I'll get
: everything done before it is time to go and waiting a week and a half to
: procede correctly will make things worse.
: I have about 1 month before we go and this trip is to get settled down there
: ahead of time.(must find a place to live with a better work area.)I am not
: working here so I can spend SOME time to hurry things now between packing
: and refinishing my house (to rent out).
: Keep Buzzing
: Dave

If your hull is hot glued/stapled to the stations you can take it off the SB and strip the deck. The hull must hold the stations/stems in place.

If you have no choice you could wrap the stripped only, deck/hull with stations, in plastic and transport. Make certain your plastic wrap is water proof.

If you can dry out your work space, glass the deck and hull, add three fill coats and stop. Take the stations out, sand and glass the insides.

From there on you can glass the interior seams if you have time. If not I'd tape the deck and hull together with NON ADHESIVE packing stretch wrap. Should be available at local hardware stores. It sticks to itself just like clear kitchen wrap. This is important. You DON’T want to use a tape with adhesive which is likely to be left on your boat, especially if you don't get back to it for a week or two.

You can then carry the boat like any other kayak and work on it at any time in the future without problems.

All the best,

Rob Macks
Laughing Loon CC&K
www.LaughingLoon.com