: I recently made a trip to the Seattle area and had some time to tour around
: the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union. I found a kayak there that
: initially attracted my interest due to its size. This plywood boat is very
: long and has 4 cockpits! That was enough to get me to take a closer look
: in itself, but then the construction caught my eye. This is a plywood
: boat, but it is evidently molded somehow such that the deck smoothly
: transitions up into the coaming lips all in one piece. This molding
: process continues on the inside of the cockpit. Very cool. Like plastic
: wood :-) Inside the cockpits was another neat feature. Each had a tractor
: style seat, also molded from ply. At least I could imagine those being
: formed in some kind of press or mold, but the coamings have me stumped. So
: in the tradition of the old "what is this?" posts we used to get
: here, I'll pose a "How'd they done do that??" How do you get
: ply/veneers to smoothly flow into the cockpit shapes like that? As I
: remember, the deck appeared to be built from two pieces which ran the
: length of the boat and joined in the middle.

: The kayak is apparently a custom/commercial job from northern Europe (Sorry,
: I don't recall from where). Does anyone from that region know of other
: examples like this?

: Many, Many thanks to Ben Staley for going back to get these photos, as I was
: dumb enough to leave my camera at home!

: Bill

It is an old Olympic K-4 made by Struer from Denemark the coming is in typical Struer style

Hans