After having finished (less varnish) building a stitch-and-glue kayak kit in my "togetherment," I thought I'd throw out a few ideas for potential builders out there:

1) Be careful of moisture created while showering. My panels started to warp in the 2 or so weeks before I started to stitch the hull together. In the end, it had no detrimental effect on the kayak, but I had to be a bit more careful getting things aligned. Keep the bathroom fan on and the door closed for a while after showering to purge out the damp air. Putting on a saturation coat of epoxy at the start might help as well.

2) Get some good lighting -- maybe one of those portable halogen shop lights. The (2) 100-watt floor lamps I used didn't quite cut it. I noticed quite a few more defects (mostly bubbly sections apparently from foamy epoxy) in my finished boat after getting it out of the apartment and into direct sunlight.

3) Duct tape works great for hanging plastic drop cloths to the ceiling to keep dust out of the rest of your apartment. (Thanks Red Green!) Just be careful when you pull the tape off -- in one area I found the duct tape to be stronger than the paint, and pulled off a 6"x1" section of paint from the ceiling...

4) I used sectional utility shelving for both workbenches and sawhorses. I had (2) 4-shelf units which made 8 mini-benches to string the panels out on while splicing the panels to length. Stacking 4 of them 2-high puts your boat at waist height for most of the rest of the project.

Happy kayak building, wherever you choose to build!