Puhleeze!!!! I'm almost done with my S&G Guillemot, and I used Nick's method and it was simple. I taped the yak together, put it on it's side on sawhorses, using a couple bar clamps to keep it in place, and before mixing any epoxy, put a 8 foot 1x2 board inside the kayak. After soaking the strips, they rolled out very easily using the stick. Your method seems much more involved and much harder...

just my .02 cents.

Larry

: Reading Nicks book (THANK YOU NICK) I read about joining the top to the
: bottom and the use of a 2" wide strip of cloth with a 1" strip
: on top, both centered on the inner seam. Presoaking the cloth and rolling
: it in seemed like it would be a messy process, so I improvised. The
: following is THE WAY to do this in the future: 1. Position the bottom half
: of the kayak on 2 saw horses ready to join to the upper half.