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Re: Cedar strip Kayak
By:Karl Coplan
Date: 9/30/1998, 1:25 pm
In Response To: Cedar strip Kayak (David Robins)

> I Have finished striping, and sanding. I would like some advice now.
> Should I start fiberglassing,? or should I make the coaming first?

I found it easier to fiberglas both sides of the deck first, myself. This way you are not trying to get your layer of glass on the deck to lay up against the cockpit coaming. Then it is easy to cut your cockpit hole in the cured glass/wood composite and lay your stripped cockpit coaming in. After stripping in the coaming, your glass on the coaming can overlap onto the deck (remember to round the edge inside and put some kind of fillet in the corner on the outside). This provides some extra reinforcement as well as bonding the coaming to the deck.

Messages In This Thread

Cedar strip Kayak
David Robins -- 9/29/1998, 1:05 pm
Re: Cedar strip Kayak
Karl Coplan -- 9/30/1998, 1:25 pm
Re: Cedar strip Kayak
Nick Schade -- 9/29/1998, 3:25 pm
Re: Cedar strip Kayak
Nathanael -- 9/29/1998, 2:50 pm
I'm too young?
Matthew Bastian -- 9/30/1998, 10:27 am
Re: I'm too young? (Inexperienced, etc.)
Mark Kanzler -- 9/30/1998, 11:15 am
Re: I'm too young? (Inexperienced, etc.)
Shawn Baker -- 10/1/1998, 6:02 pm
Re: I'm too young? (Inexperienced, etc.)
jim champoux -- 10/5/1998, 11:13 am
Re: Woody
Mark Kanzler -- 10/1/1998, 6:18 pm
Re: I'm too young? (Inexperienced, etc.)
Nick Schade -- 9/30/1998, 1:58 pm
Re: I'm too young? (Inexperienced, etc.)
Roger Tulk -- 9/30/1998, 1:49 pm
Re: IMarl's design project.
Karl Coplan -- 9/30/1998, 1:30 pm
Re: ISS design project.
Mark Kanzler -- 9/30/1998, 1:55 pm
If I was still at the Radar Station ( sorry off topic ... )
Brian C. -- 9/30/1998, 3:22 pm
Re: If I was still at the Radar Station ( sorry off topic ... )
Mark Kanzler -- 9/30/1998, 7:04 pm
Re: If I was still at the Radar Station ( sorry off topic ... )
Brian C. -- 10/1/1998, 10:13 am