I'm considering building another stripper, but this time I want to speed up the process a bit. I'm not interested in the pretty wood look this go around......nothing against it but I've already built two pretty wood strip kayaks. I have a set of Outer Island plans that keep shouting at me for attention and I'd like to solict some advice from the great folks on this board.

Instead of buying or making bead & cove strips, I'm considering ripping some old 3/4 thick pine and cedar boards I have into 3/16 thick strips, stapling them down to the forms without gluing them together, and when complete fill the gaps and small spaces between the hastily laid wood strips with an epoxy/microballon filler. I'm figuring maybe I could strip and fill the hull in one afternoon. Once the epoxy has cured for a couple of days, sand the hull smooth with a fairing board, then epoxy/glass the outside of the hull.

Complete the rest of the hull and both sides of the deck the same way and all that's left is to build the hatches, cockpit, bulkheads, join together, etc, etc.

Once complete, I would probably use some of Interlux's Brightside's marine polyurethane to finish things up.

The big question......Has anyone here ever done anything like this? Any advice or link to a blog where its been described would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Tripp Stanley