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Re: Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak
By:Marc Upchurch
Date: 4/23/2012, 3:42 pm
In Response To: Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak *PIC* (Kevin Greer)

:Glad to hear someone else "customizing" their kayak in this manner. I did a little better than that - I closed a manual closing door on my sons Laughing Loon North Star. I only got about 6 feet of 18 cracked. To this day, looking to the stearn there are two little arrowheads of light where I didn't get the WRC back together good enough. Same as yours - it was recently delivered.

Should we start a club?

I completed this Guillemot L kayak in December and have over a 100
: miles of paddling Pine Island Sound, Estero Bay, and the Florida
: Keys. During the build process, I just completed stripping the
: hull when I closed the automatic garage door on the hull. The
: hull crack in about 14 places, mostly along the seams. My heart
: sank! But my grandaughter said I could put it back together,
: which I did! I reglued the crack seams and made a couple of
: patches. I started with gluing and taping the sides to the
: stations and then finally reglued the two keel strips. I
: continued the build with stripping the deck and fiberglass with
: no major problems. I installed a Kajak skeg, Current Design
: seat, and used carbon fiber for the cockpit lip and hip plates.
: My lay up was done between expedition and standard lay up.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak *PIC*
Kevin Greer -- 4/22/2012, 1:24 pm
Re: Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak *NM* *PIC*
Kevin Greer -- 4/22/2012, 1:25 pm
Re: Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak *NM* *PIC*
Kevin Greer -- 4/22/2012, 1:27 pm
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Mike -- 4/22/2012, 2:06 pm
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dave g -- 4/22/2012, 3:36 pm
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scottbaxter -- 4/22/2012, 4:41 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 4/22/2012, 11:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/23/2012, 12:42 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/23/2012, 8:38 am
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David Bynoe -- 4/23/2012, 12:10 pm
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Jay Babina -- 4/23/2012, 8:02 am
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Kevin Greer -- 4/23/2012, 9:32 am
Re: Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak
ancient kayaker -- 4/23/2012, 12:33 pm
Re: Strip: Disaster to a Completed Kayak
Marc Upchurch -- 4/23/2012, 3:42 pm