I have posted the pictures that accompany this update to the So-Cal kayak builders page to minimize my use of this list's bandwidth. Http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/btreecs/. I will be happy to privately email anyone with questions. Saturday we spent around 2 hours stripping the last of the hull, we cut it really close with strips, in fact we had to use 2 of our white cedar strips to get the last bit. We chose to weave the ends of the strips as the come together at the keel line rather than cutting them off flush with the keel line. This looks really nice, although we knew that when sanding time came we would have to pay attention to sanding a straight line down the center of the hull, as the strips cross over the keel at the ends. Also, we kept weaving them until the very last strip rather than fitting a patch of straight strips to fill in the last bit. Jon suggested for the last part, which we did in white cedar, that we actually weave the strips with the ends alternating. This is really hard to explain with words, but later on, pictures will show this to be a very nice touch. It also meant that we had to cut, fit and glue two strips at once. The last gap was filled with a single strip tapered at both ends. This strip, was sanded to a peak to follow the keel line. Sunday we pulled the staples, we each took a side and eased the staples out with linesmans pliers. No gouges, dents or broken staples. It took us about a half hour but it was quite easy. We then set about sanding. We used a random orbital sander with hook and loop discs, hooked it up to a shop-vac with a clean bag to collect the sawdust which we will use later to make fill and fillet putty. I sanded the bow and stern and Jon sanded all the rest. We used 80 grit discs, changed about every 15-20 minutes. Intending to switch to 120 grit when finished rough sanding. After about 2 hours, just as we finished with the 80 grit my shop vac quit on us, so rather than continue without suction we stopped. We wet it down and showed it off to Susan. This week, I will try to repair my shop vac and go over the boat with 120 and a fairing board. I must say that I had expected to sand much more than I did, perhaps its the design of the boat, I dont know, but it seemed that with a minimum of sanding, I had a very smooth and (apparently) fair surface. It also seems that with every step this boat just keeps getting better looking. Jim Champoux & Son -------------- jim_at_sigall.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************
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