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good to see you worked it out. I have'nt had any prior experience either so the HAB/HB was a bit daunting until I actually started...

I dont think theres anything to buy from him even if you...

oh, whoops, just noticed that i didnt actually answer!

if you meant actually tracing the shapes onto the ply - follow the manual! dont forget to measure twice and cut once :) takes a while but...

oh yeah, following the manual is very valuable...

I justlooked at it again last night and realised now why cutting the fore/aft plates was such a nightmare and done pretty badly (by me :) - I...

hey,

havent updated this in a while, but i have almost finished all the major glues now. certinaly has been slowed down by my habit of having too many projects on the go at once...

what...

So,

After an actual paddle this afternoon, I quickly set up the strong back wit hthe aim of putting all the timber together to get a look at what this kayak is actually going to be like.

The...

hmm youve pretty much confirmed what i felt mat.
I was planning on putting the holes on the inside as I figured an arch (or two stacked together to make a hole) is a compressively strong structure. ...

ok...

so I made my scarf cuts this afternoon, mostly looking pretty good. For some reason the keel is a bit off-straight, but since it's going to get bent anyway I'm not really that fussed about...

yeah, i thought you'd like a glimpse of your spectral self :)

hey everyone,

thanks for help earlier about timber choices for my recycled/tip-shop skin on frame (Yost sea bee) project.
I got lucky just after I was last online and picked up 3 oregon/douglas...

well...

after all that, I headed to the tip shop on friday, and after spending 1/2 hour selecting good straight grained bits of tas oak, I came across 3 x 2.6m oregon beams which i think used to...

Wow BoatMik that was an amazing reply!! :2tsup: Very very useful as I was definitely leaning towards what might have been a wet noodle...

I think that labr@'s idea is a bit more extreem than I...

Mmm,
thats a useful point.

the yostwerks site sys he uses 'redwood' for the seebea and western red cedar for some other boats (which are longer and skinnier). Redwood is a bit vague to me, but...

Hi everyone,
I'm a long time lurker (mostly in the home renovation areas actually) but just signed up at long last to ask a question which I havent bee nable to work out myself for sure...
I'm...