: Probably a silly question, but how important is it to have a level floor when
: building a strip kayak. I know that with a stich and glue this is not
: really problem, but it would seem to me that aligning strips and forms
: this would prove to be quite a challenge.

: I live in an older house and the garage floor has taken a beating with the
: shifting soils. There are some sizable cracks, but overall I would guess
: the floor rises and falls about two inches.

My garage floor has a pretty good slope (for drainage, I 'spose) so I gave up trying to level the srongback. I figured if the strongback was flat and square, it's relation to the rest of the world didn't really matter. I then set up my station forms, taking great pains to ensure they were plumb. The night before I was to begin stripping, just as I was drifting off to sleep, I realized all my "plumb" station forms were actually set at an angle in relation to my sloping strongback. Next morning I squared the stations to the strongback and I was ready to roll.

Jim