Flat deck rock garden F1 kayak build, post 5. Adding stems and stringers. Again, great music on this one!
Put the stems and stringers on in the normal way. Not much else to report today except for the fact that I made the decision to keep this kayak and rebuild it for the customer.
Like I said in previous posts the reason for this is that the bending Oak isn’t quite as tight grain as I want for any kayak that’s going to get a 12 ounce skin. 12 ounce shrinks with incredible force and you really need the best of the best wood to resist rib collapse.
On the plus side this will give me another chance to improve the aesthetic and functionality of the flat deck version and film those modifications so I can add them to the kayak building course. This also gives me a second boat to catamaran along side the first one so I can do side-by-side comparisons between the flat deck catamaran arrangement and the ridge deck catamaran arrangement. (see post from a few days ago).
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