Well...this past weekend wasn't very productive. I tried to get the gunwales in the forms we have, but since I added some uplift to the bow they didn't fit into them. It took 3 of us an hour to wrangle the kayak into forms with clamps and pieces of wood. I was too tired to take a picture of the contraption we finally came up with.
Then I started working on sawing the ends They need to be filed down so they come together on a flat plane. And basically that's all I got done in 6 hours, this qajaq may never get finished.
Then to cap off the weekend I borrowed Chuck's qajaq to take to a pool session on Sunday. I drove all the way to Ypsilanti, where EMU has an olympic size pool. This would have given me a chance to see if I liked his dimensions. Unfortunately the pool was closed, so I still don't quite know what size my kayak will be. I'm thinking a 20" beam, my nighthawk is 22".
So my homework is to read up and figure out how to install the deck beams. Hopefully it will begin to make sense...to me and I'll make some progress this weekend. I previously said you don't need to be a rocket scientist...I might have been wrong.
You made more progress than you think. While you read up try sketching quick rough ideas, from the lines you like, of the qajaq you would like to build. Just pieces and sections, one step at a time. It's a work in progress!
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