I too am building an osprey std w/ hatches and bulkheads. Sometimes I get tired of working on it. Your post was encouraging. I am excited about finishing and seeing if it performs as well as yours does patrick

> Hi everybody! I've been reading this board for a couple of months
> now and I thought It was about time That I passed on a couple of thoughts.
> Last fall I built a Pygmy osprey standard for my wife Jenny,I bought
> the full kit from Pygmy including the hatch and bulkhead kit as well
> as the deck rigging kit. the total cost was about $720.00. I could
> of saved about $180.00 if I had spent the time to find the glass and
> epoxy locally and built the hatches and bulkheads from scratch. It
> took about 5 months and the result is awesome! The second one is for
> me and it is about half way done. The kayak paddles like it is on
> rails and turns well, I've had it out in the ocean as well as large
> lakes with 2-4 foot swells. So far it does'nt seem to plunge through
> the swells,it mostly goes over the top! I have not had any of the
> problems in construction that I've read about on this board,That speaks
> well for Pygmy!Any questions,E-mail me! p.s. My 75 lb. huskey dosent
> like the small cockpit!And I agree!