Hi everyone,

I just overrode PhotoPoint to get this picture posted on the board. When you upload you photo to the inbox, and before you put it into an album you can link to it. But after it goes to you album it won't link anymore for free. I pasted the link to Word and tryed to post the link that way but that doesn't work for some reason.

Now, I have had a lot of trouble with my boat and I am going to have a lot of refinishing this winter. The deck started cracking again even with one layer of glass on the deck. When I seperated the deck from the hull it started to curl like a clam and when I used spreaders it started to crack on the 1/8" wide strips on the deck pattern. But I have 3 layer of glass under the deck and I wresled for 8 hours to get the deck matched to the haul so I could get my inside seam glassed to hold them together. That was a victory in itself. I still have to do the outside seam. But there was so much stress that the deck slightly delaminated and it looks like there is dandruff on some of it. So I will have to sand the old glass out and redo it this winter. The boat so far weighs 33 lbs and I figure about 38 when its finished. I portaged it to the pond which is about 350 ft and that wasn't bad at all. The boat sets very high in the water and with the 10 to 15 mph wind I had it is pushed around some except when I was paddling and it seemed to be OK. It seems fast so I can imagine how fast your low, long kayaks are. One thing more. When I stepped into the kayak I tipped right into the water.

John