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The wooden frame of the kayak is finished after quite some labour and good clean fun. A more thorough explanation and lots of photos are available here (click on "Building a kayak").
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Next up is covering the skeleton with cloth, stitching it together and making it impermeable. Then the carpentering of a double-bladed paddle and the sewing of a spraydeck. Hopefully all done prior to the club's ceremony of ship naming and launching in early summer, which means I will be back with more of this in part 2.