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S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
By:Myrl Tanton
Date: 11/26/2001, 3:29 pm

Hi Guys,

Well, seems the wind has changed course, and I'm being blown along with it.
I've decided I'd really like to put a cedar strip deck on a Guillemot Stich and Glue hull. I've already received the plywood, so I'd really like to use it. (I now have enough wood for three boats doing this, maybe I'll have enough practice to post somthing usefull when I am done on how I did it)

Here is the two options I've come up with:
a) build supports for under the deck, which attach to the gunwhale, and plank then over them (so they remain part of the Kayak), or,
b) try and build stations and build it more traditionally, where the stations are removed.

I'd appreciate any opinions on which way to go, as well as any direction on other parts of the process. I've never build a kayak, but have made a cedar strip canoe.

I figure option A will produce an easy to fit deck, but at what cost (weight?).

Thanks,

Myrl

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
Myrl Tanton -- 11/26/2001, 3:29 pm
Re: S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/27/2001, 8:23 pm
Re: S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
Dave Kreiton -- 11/27/2001, 1:32 pm
Re:??on Dave's cormorant
Tony -- 11/27/2001, 9:22 pm
Re:??on Dave's cormorant
Dave Kreiton -- 11/28/2001, 5:33 am
Re: S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
Myrl Tanton -- 11/27/2001, 4:49 pm
Re: S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
Dave Kreiton -- 11/28/2001, 5:16 am
Re: S&G: Guillemot with a strip deck
David Ross -- 11/27/2001, 9:57 am