Every aspect of the kayak building process reflects my life‘s focus on maximizing efficiency.
The center seam is a simple whip stitch from bow to stern, and this plus cutting the exact overlap that I need before I begin lets me skin a kayak from start to finish in about four hours.
I guess you could cross stitch back the other direction but I’ve never seen the functional advantage. To each his own but for me that’s two hours I could be spending paddling or drinking beer, not that I do much of either these days but that’s the philosophy at least!
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