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Re: Building deck before glassing hull
By:Robert Woodard
Date: 12/27/1998, 10:10 pm
In Response To: Building deck before glassing hull (Chris Howie)

> 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

I built my deck before glassing the hull. I tried to use wax paper between the hull and deck when I glassed but the wax paper kept lifting the fiberglass away at the shear line. I would recommend seperating them before glassing.

Messages In This Thread

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