: I just made the cockpit combing on my new Hybrid S-n-G/Strip-deck Baidarka
: and Cross stripped the cockpit recess first, then 'glassed inside and out,
: then did the vertical combing. this way the 'glass lies nice and smoothly
: over the entire deck and is easy to uniformly wet out (no precoat this
: time. Also the whole structure was stronger for sanding etc. Glassing the
: lip could be done carefully at my leisure.

Hi Eric,

Scott here, just wanted to thank you for the time spent with us a few weeks ago. Not many peolpe would put up with us on a Sunday morning!! I received the Baidarka plans a few days later and can report that they are now pinned to the half sheets of the okoume plywood. Being the time of year it is, I might not finish tracing until Jan.!!! I did start to use a sewing tool for tracing patterns to cloth, one of those small wheels with lots of teeth. It seems to go a lot faster, but you still have to be careful and accurate. The one advatage is that the line is complete on the wood ----------- automatically.
The greenland paddle arrived Monday Looks great!! Fits me well, thanks for the time taken to fit it to my short little body.
As the Baidarka takes shape, photos will be posted.
Now if only I could finish painting my daughters bedroom and the den before Christmas, maybe I could actually spend quality time with the new kayak to be.

And how is the Hybrid coming? Interested parties want to know. Wil the kit be ready in the next few months?

ScottH.