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Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
By:Julie Kanarr
Date: 2/16/2000, 12:25 am
In Response To: Request for newbie kayak building advice (Steven Jarvis)

If you can read & follow directions, you'll be fine!! (see my note below about cleaning resin off panels... I'm taking over a pygmy kit that my elderly stepfather 'started.')

Seriously, though, you'll be able to do it in that space. My basement workspace is comparable... a bit longer, also 10 feet wide but functionally narrower, because I've got a line of furniture (couch, loveseat, chair) along one wall (covered in sheets to protect it from sanding dust... I didn't have anywhere else to move it to.) You'll be able to put the boat diagonally so you can get around the ends -- you do need to be able to get to it from both ends.

I already owned a drill, pliers, a block plane & some C-clamps. (not enough, though, so I bought more). I ended up buying a quick grip clamp, a surform, a file, sawhorses, a pull saw, and a LOT of latex gloves & sandpaper & foam brushes. Because I was doing some things in small increments (because of my work schedule, mostly), I ended up using more foam brushes than pygmy estimates. I didn't keep track of that stuff, but I think I spent about $100 on consumable supplies & do-dads... and all of the do-dads will come in handy for my new boat-building addiction!

Messages In This Thread

Request for newbie kayak building advice
Steven Jarvis -- 2/15/2000, 11:01 pm
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Mike -- 2/19/2000, 9:09 pm
Re: Table for Three
Eric -- 2/21/2000, 2:39 am
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Mike -- 2/21/2000, 9:15 pm
Re: Lake Union Round Up?????
Mike Hanks -- 2/22/2000, 1:34 am
Re: Lake Union Round Up?????
Mike -- 2/24/2000, 10:42 pm
re: "R2K" - RENDEZVOUS 2000
Joe Greenley -- 2/25/2000, 12:00 am
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Mike Hanks -- 2/20/2000, 11:38 am
Go for the Pygmy
Brion -- 2/17/2000, 1:37 am
The addiction has just begun
Jason -- 2/16/2000, 11:41 am
Re: gloves,random orbital sander
lee -- 2/16/2000, 9:22 am
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Bill Jankowski -- 2/16/2000, 7:59 am
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Bill Heuser -- 2/22/2000, 7:54 pm
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Jim Eisenmenger -- 2/16/2000, 7:06 am
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Wayne R. -- 2/16/2000, 7:01 am
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Julie Kanarr -- 2/16/2000, 12:25 am
Go for it
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/15/2000, 11:53 pm
Re: Request for newbie kayak building advice
Mike Scarborough -- 2/15/2000, 11:42 pm