hi all

this may not be the best forum to ask these questions but it is the one i know

i'm in the mountains of japan and last year i decided to get onto the water however i could, so i bought the cheapest plastic kayak i could, from yahoo auctions, for the rocky rivers and built a stitch and glue cheap canoe, from free plans from bataeu.com, for the lakes

the kayak is an old dagger response and while a well made comfortable craft it is a bear to keep in any sort of straight line, to be expected as it was designed as a whitewater kayak.

i decided i wanted something a little longer than the 3.5mtr of the dagger with a vee shapped hull so again searched the auctions and have just bought a quality kayaks venturer

http://www.sportsexpress.co.nz/enter.html?target=p_174.html&lang=en-us

it has no bulkheads so i would like to add some, and then some hatches, will also have to relocate the rudder slides as my long legs push them off the rails

so my question is what materials would make the best bulkheads and how best to seal them to the polyplastic hull, then how would i best waterproof my jigsaw cut hatches and fill the holes left when i move the rudder rails

eric e

would be easier to just buy a new one i know but appart from japans habit of having too many hands in the supply chain who simply add 100% each time for their part i like fixing things