: Does anyone know if bead & cove strips can be stored for approx 1 year
: without adverse affects? I imagine that they would warp to some degree,
: but would they still be usable? Would they dry out too much & crack?
: I've normally used wood right away after buying it & the only time
: I've stored any it was in fairly large pieces.

I don't think you will have any problem with any of that. The strips are probably air dried and they will only go up and down in moisture content with the surrounding moisture in the air.

Just tape them together in a fairly tight bundle ( not so tight you damage edges ) and about every foot or so. I'd wrap them with some kind of paper, plastic under the tape also. Maybe you can get some of that clear wrap the truckers use for palletized products. cover the ends with cardboard to protect the edges from being damaged if moved.

Have you talked to Vaclav at One Ocean Kayaks? Everyone I've heard that dealt with him got quick and very satisfactory service. I can't imagine it would be him or his business that's the problem.

It's pretty tough to get a copy of the money order you purchased, but you might ask and tell them what the situation is. ??? Probably a bad time of year right now to ask someone to take that much time apart from their regular duties.

Being a postal employee, I know how things can get screwed up in the mail and shipped to a wrong destination, but it seems you would have gotten something back by now in that case. It's worse now with those damn barcode readers that sort all the mail now. They cost millions, displaced hundreds of thousands of jobs and don't work worth a crap. Also, if you didn't put a return address on the envolpe ( and i'm not saying you didn't ) and the address wasn't right, or got messed up, or was difficult to read it would go to a "Dead Letter" section somewhere and sit until they had time to open it and get some sort of address off of it ( probably the bank or Post office you purchased it from ) and send it back there. Not the greatest of options, but from our standpoint at the old P.O., that's what happens in situations like that.

Sorry to hear of the mess up and difficulty in getting a boat started.
I hope your money order turns up and you CAN get a start sometime when time is available to you again.

Best wishes...

Rehd