North Alaska replica kayak frame build, Day 19. We started the day by bending in some adorable tiny little ribs at the ends of the kayaks before finishing the shaping on the ends and tying everything together. Each kayak has a different end treatment. The smaller one is pegged and and the keel is lashed on with a V lashing, the longer kayak is seized entirely with wraps of cord. We based these details on the two Inupiaq frame surveys in Harvey’s book, with the big difference being that those pegs were likely originally just big nails bent over.
The keel is lashed on with a simple running lashing that runs straight forward to aft through drilled holes on either side of the ribs.
The stringers are lashed on with an extremely simple running lashing that circles the rib and then runs diagonally across the underside of the stringer to circle the next rib. It’s not a very positive attachment so we had to pull really hard to have any hope of the stringers staying in place.
At the end of another really long day I realized that I had made a completely boneheaded mistake when I noticed on Harvey‘s drawing that the middle stringer is actually the one that reaches the longest toward the ends, not the top one like I did. So I guess I know what I’m doing first thing in the morning….
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