Hello to everybody, my new skin on frame kayak

[Jo White]

Hello Folks,

I'm lurking some time around in this wonderfull forum. I live with my family in the Hampton roads area. Last year I built a Hiawatha 14 canoe after the plans from bateau.com. It worked fine and I like the result very much. Unfortunately I had some left over plywood from the project and there is not enough room for my wife, three kids and me.
Therefore I desided to start the next project to get ride of the leftover plywood and to have one more seat.
This time I'm building a skin-on frame Kayak.

Greetings
Johannes

[Jo White]

Here a pic of my canoe

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx19PT39

No place for Mom

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx19Q710

[Jo White]

An here the new boat

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx19TcA9

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx19Twxi

[Thorne]

Very cool! Keep us posted on your progress.

[DGentry]

Looking good! Are you building from plans?

Canoe looks nice, too.

Good luck!
Dave Gentry

[Jo White]

Thanks,

yes I'm building the kayak from a plan from Clark Kraft.
In the moment I'm not sure what skin to use canvas or more modern stuff like ceconite 101 . I saw pretty interesting report under this link:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~acsrrrm/kayak/pbk/pbk27/pbk_27.html (http://people.brunel.ac.uk/%7Eacsrrrm/kayak/pbk/pbk27/pbk_27.html)

Does anybody has already used the ceconite for a skin-on-frame kayak/ canoe?

Greetings
Johannes

Greetings

http://www.clarkcraft.com/cgi-local/shop_new.pl?type=item&categ=014&item=1136939983&cart_id=a6b26a1f58ef54227d51a1b953675714

[StevenBauer]

Very nice, Jo! Welcome.


http://s1.postimage.org/19PT39-35aa567629ae356de243e16a63198e2c.jpg

http://s1.postimage.org/19Q710-35aa567629ae356de243e16a63198e2c.jpg



Steven

[DGentry]

I'd skip canvas - very hard and painful to sew, and prone to rot. Nylon or polyester are my fabrics of choice, with poly being the one I prefer these days. Hit up the famous George Dyson for his list of fabrics he sells specifically for covering SOF boats. GDyson@gmail.com

There's a good overview of skinning and coating options in the latest Masik online magazine. Check it out here, starting aroung p41. http://www.qajaqusa.org/QUSA/newsletter.html

Edited to say that: Ceconite is a type of Dacron - which is a polyester fabric. I use the 8oz polyester from Mr. Dyson, and I can use heat (very carefully applied) to shrink out any wrinkles that may develop when skinning the boat - that's why I like it.

[Jo White]

Hello DGentry,
thank you for the link. This was very interresting.

[Syed]

Welcome to the forum!

Nice boat and happy family sharing good times;

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s184/pinstco/untitled-3.jpg

[Jo White]

Hi Syed

Thank you

Johannes

[Steve Lansdowne]

What is the estimated final weight of the boat you're building?

[Jo White]

I'm not sure, but tomorrow I can put on a scale. A rough estimate is about 10 pounds.

Johannes

[Jo White]

I glued in the corner blocks for the coaming frames and of course sanding, sanding, sanding.....

http://s1.postimage.org/1kJ5O9.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1kJ5O9)

http://s1.postimage.org/1kJ8ii.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1kJ8ii)

http://s1.postimage.org/1kJdhA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1kJdhA)

[Steve Lansdowne]

Wow, 10 lbs. I'm interested! What did it actually weigh??

[Jo White]

10 pounds might be a little bit to optimistic. I will put it on scale tomorrow.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

It's a 13 ft. x 26 in. Percy Blandford design. The plan offering claims the finished weight should be 26 lb.

[Jo White]

O.K. the 10 pounds were really to optimistic. I put it on a scale and its weight is 21 pound without the skin. Here a few pics with the decks.

Greetings
Johannes


http://s1.postimage.org/1uIvb9.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1uIvb9)

http://s1.postimage.org/1uIxGi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1uIxGi)

http://s1.postimage.org/1uIAar.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1uIAar)