Introduction

These pages are in no way a replacement for the 'strip building bible', Nick Schade's 'The Strip-built Sea Kayak'. I do hope that the info can be a complement to that book. Materials and tools available differ from country to country, even between regions! Another perspective is always welcome.

So, what follows is really a log, detailing the problems I encountered and decisions I made in my particular case. I hope they are of use to others!

Steps I followed

Forms	Drawing	Understanding and drawing the book's tables.
	Cutting	Cortar y terminar los moldes en madera MDF
Strongback	Material	Alternatives and selection of the material for the strongback.
	Construction	Pictures of the construction steps
	Repair	The strongback wasn't so strong... It fell and broke in two places. This is the repair procedure.
Strips	Woods	Selecting the wood for the strips is an important step! Using local woods cuts costs...
	Operations	Pictures of the processing (cuttin/routing/planing etc) to obtain the strips.
	Stripping the hull	Pictures of the actual stripping of the hull.
	Front deck	Stripping of the front deck.
	Read deck	Stripping of the aft deck.
	Cockpit recess	Filling up the cockpit recess.
Intermezzo - finishing bow/stern	Bow and stern	Before applying the epoxy, it's necessary to touch up the bow and the stern.
Applying the epoxy	Hull	Applying the resin to the hull, as a practice run before the deck...
	Deck	... and then the deck, which has it's own problems.
Coaming	Coaming	Comstruction of the vertical wall of the coaming.
	Coaming lip	How I made the horizontal part...
Epoxy insides	Inside	Some things to take into account when doing the insides.
Hatches	Hatches	My solution to the hatch problem.
	Mounting	and how I mounted them under the deck.
	Straps	The fixing blocks for hatch straps.
Closing	Closing	Joining the hull with the deck

Continues with drawing the forms.

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(c) John Coppens ON6JC/LW3HAZ

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