Building the Kayak from a kit (started Sept. 21, 2009) |
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PYGMY BOATS INC. Page (my kit is a Pinguino) |
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The kit arrives in 3 boxes. |
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The plywood is pre-cut. |
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The long pieces need to be fiberglassed together, holding them with water bottles. |
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This shows four of the wire stitches holding the lower pieces of the bow. |
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The plywood pieces are temporarily "stitched" to each other and to forms. |
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The lower hull is now "stitched" and ready to epoxy glue along the keel. |
The hull has now been flipped on to modifed forms for epoxy of the seams. |
Dick is using a #10 wood scraper to remove excess epoxy (I did a lot of this). |
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The wires are out and it's mostly scraped and sanded. |
The hull has now been coated with a sealer coat of epoxy. |
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The hull is draped in fiberglass ready for a saturating coat of epoxy resin. |
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