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Building deck before glassing hull
By:Chris Howie
Date: 12/27/1998, 8:33 pm

It seems that everything I read about building and glassing a strip kayak, says to glass the hull and then procede to building the deck. I am in the process of building a Georgian Bay kayak and have just completed stripping the hull. I want to just flip the boat over and start on the deck. Once the deck is stripped I figured on sanding everything at once and then glassing the hull and deck one at a time and then joining them. Am I missing something? Why doesn't anyone do it this way. CHRIS HOWIE

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Building deck before glassing hull
Chris Howie -- 12/27/1998, 8:33 pm
Re: Building deck before glassing hull
Nick Schade -- 12/28/1998, 8:58 am
done it, works fine
Pete Ford -- 12/27/1998, 10:10 pm
Re: Building deck before glassing hull
Robert Woodard -- 12/27/1998, 10:10 pm
Re: Building deck before glassing hull
Mike Scarborough -- 12/27/1998, 9:43 pm