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Bank of Montreal @ the Junction

Posted on January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 By Mike No Comments on Bank of Montreal @ the Junction
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I say it a couple times every year. I need to take more photos. So today I took out the camera, blew off the dust and I’ve decided to start up a photo blog again. Old style buildings are fun in Toronto. We don’t have a lot of history or old buildings in the city. … Read More “Bank of Montreal @ the Junction” »

Closing off the Kayak and Recessed Handles

Posted on November 30, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Closing off the Kayak and Recessed Handles
Closing off the Kayak and Recessed Handles
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

The first recessed handle took like a week to make. I guess I did learn a lot from the first one, as I was able to knock out the 2nd in 1 night. I than had to cut a hole in the front and rear decks to accommodate the recessed handle. The shoulder of the … Read More “Closing off the Kayak and Recessed Handles” »

Mounting the cockpit and tankwell

Posted on November 30, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Mounting the cockpit and tankwell
Mounting the cockpit and tankwell
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

Sorry, updates have been very delayed and lacking. I’ve also not taken too many photos. I think after a while its just a lot of little details and the Kayak didn’t look too different. For this post we’ll talk about mounting the tankwell and cockpit. A few things had to be done before that happened. … Read More “Mounting the cockpit and tankwell” »

Interior Fiberglass and frames

Posted on October 19, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Interior Fiberglass and frames
Interior Fiberglass and frames
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

Ok, fiberglassing the interior I thought was gonna be fast and easy. Since looks don’t really matter. Turns out I was wrong as usual. Basically it felt like as soon as you did one section it would tug a bit on another section and the fillet areas would always end up with air bubbles. Near … Read More “Interior Fiberglass and frames” »

Its Fiberglassing Time!

Posted on October 10, 2020October 9, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Its Fiberglassing Time!
Its Fiberglassing Time!
Informational, Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

First time fiberglassing. There seemed to be two methods. The CLC method of doing sections at a time and Nick Schade’s method of saturating the fiberglass everywhere and coming back to squeeze out the excess. I had estimated this step would take a bit over an hour based in Nick Schade’s video. Well, the Sabalo … Read More “Its Fiberglassing Time!” »

Let the sanding begin

Posted on October 9, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Let the sanding begin
Let the sanding begin
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

Started sanding down the outside of the hull. I started with 60 grit by hand. The reason I wanted to start by hand was to get a feel for it, and especially the chines I feel needed some work to get the correct shape and feather in some of the edges. It took forever. After … Read More “Let the sanding begin” »

Epoxy fillets

Posted on October 4, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Epoxy fillets
Epoxy fillets
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

So this step feels like it’s taking forever. It started with tacking together panels B-D. Than we had to remove the inner frame, restitch supports, stitch Panel A and than tacking that in. Somewhere in that we also restitched the bow with the jig, carefully remove the jig and tack the bow. I’ve since filled … Read More “Epoxy fillets” »

Hull panels all stitched

Posted on September 27, 2020October 2, 2020 By Mike 2 Comments on Hull panels all stitched
Hull panels all stitched
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

It took longer than I thought it would. Buy finally all the hull panels are stitched up and all but the last one have epoxy fillets holding them along. Note of advice for future builders, leave the stitches a bit loose and popsicle sticks are super useful for helping to keep the shape. Also don’t … Read More “Hull panels all stitched” »

Stitching the hull together

Posted on September 13, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Stitching the hull together
Stitching the hull together
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

Finally got to stitching the hull together. 18 Ga copper wire does seem to be perfect as everyone says. It held the stern and bow pieces together really well. Those parts were definitely challenging to do. It’s super cool opening up the bottom hull panels and having a curved hull shape come together. Everything seems … Read More “Stitching the hull together” »

Scarfing panels

Posted on September 10, 2020September 8, 2020 By Mike No Comments on Scarfing panels
Scarfing panels
Kayak Building, Sabalo 12 MK1

This part of the kayak build has been Maki g me nervous. I debated whether I should just fiberglass butt join them, block butt join them or scarf them. Everything I read suggested scarfing was the way to go. Earlier I posted about the router jig I made to scarf the panels together. Turns out … Read More “Scarfing panels” »

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