John,
Very nice work! Great job on the web site too. Your Guillemont building pages just helped me with a problem I was just experiencing. I was having trouble getting my coaming lip to follow the contours of the deck. Your line about soaking the strips in the bathtub was perfect. I was just posting to ask if that was an option (soaking the strips) and now I know it is and it works! Thanks.

--Tony

: This week I completed a Redfish Spring Run kayak and I want to share a few
: photos with all of you. The boat is 23 and 3/4" wide and built to a
: 16 foot length.

: The hull and deck edges are a light shade of western red cedar. The deck top
: is also western red cedar, from a single light-colored sapwood board. The
: dark trim is Peruvian walnut.

: This boat has flush hatches, Yakima footbraces, wood bulkheads, a
: Schade-style backrest and Greenley seat bottom and loop deck fittings.

: In the water, I found the Spring Run has very good tracking and no
: significant weathercocking. The rounded bottom provides very good
: secondary stability with a low paddler center of gravity. Rolls okay, but
: I'll add foam inside knee braces to give a little more purchase on the
: deck.

: There are some photos from the building process and completed boat on my web
: site, but not a complete log.

: That's my friend, Steve, trying the boat in these photos.

: This is my second strip boat, having build a Guillemot last winter. My next
: project will be a Guillemot Night Heron, low version, that I want to
: complete by early next spring.

: Thank you everyone for all the great tips on this forum, and to those of you
: with web sites that give me so many ideas. Ross, Ken, Vaclav, Nick and
: others, thanks a bunch.

: John C
: Dallas, Texas