Hi David,

8" is an awfully big end pour. Your adding a significant amount of weight where you want it least, right at the ends of the kayak. You might want to move your plywood dams much closer than 8" from you bow and stern. Just enough to run a grab loop through. Also an end pour that large will generate a lot of heat when it kicks off, something else to keep in mind.

Just a thought.

Ken

: I have a lot of these.
: How do you make deck fittings with SOF? I'm guessing they should be atttached
: to the frames for strength but, the frames don't touch the canvas (The
: stringers are 1/4 inch higher.) Do I stitch them into the canvas and lash
: them to a stringer at the same time? Bow and stern aren't much of a
: problem. I capped the last 8 inches of the S&G hull with a piece of 4mm
: ply and they will be getting end pours. As soon as it stops pouring
: outside. (I knew I should have gone with 18 foot ceilings)
: -David