: Greetings all..

: As still a relative newcomer to the list (and building my first kayak
: stripper) I thought I'd drop an update on the progress of my Redfish
: Silver. All-in-all everything has progressed well in the last few weeks. I
: finished stripping the hull a week ago and completed fairing and final
: sanding thursday night. (The hull is cedar with a pine accent 1 course
: below the sheer line.) The time I spent on the setup truly paid off as she
: is fair and has a true line. This morning after cleaning my shop and
: bringing the temperature up to 60(still cold in Idaho)I layed on 6 oz
: glass. All went extremely well and I will apply a second coat of epoxy
: later this afternoon and one early tomorrow morning.

: I'm looking forward to doing the deck and have redwood, pine and cedar to
: develop a pleasing design... I am awaiting delivery of some 3"
: mahagony veneer to build the laminated coaming from. Should arrive
: thursday or friday. My coaming form for the lamination is all constructed
: so all should progress quicly once the wood arrives..

: Still deciding what to do for the seat. I am contemplating making a veneer
: lamination for a backrest and then using minicell on that as well as the
: bottom... Time will tell.. Also still contemplating whose footbraces to
: use....

: Cheers.

: Jim

Hi Jim,

If you can, post some pictures. I just started to work on my deck also and trying to come up with a design is causing me a lot of indecisions. I've drawn picture, got ideas from others and am trying to think it up as I go along. Does anyone else have these problems?

John