Before stripping up the deck, I need to free the hull because it will hard to do later. First I remove the spacer wedges to make the forms free to move on the strongback. Then I rap the forms with a hammer to break the hot-melt glue. There were only a few dots worth on each form so this was not too hard.
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This series of videos shows the steps of building a wooden kayak using the "strip-planked" or "strip-built" method. This particular boat is a double paddle canoe design called the microBootlegger by Guillemot Kayaks. More information about the boat is available at http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com . Further information about the building techniques shown in these videos is available in the book "Building Strip-Planked Boats": http://building-strip-planked-boats.com/ For more videos in this series please visit: http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/blog
Does the outside of the hull need to be glassed before you try this?
KingFu360 5 months ago