hi All,

New Year Wishes to all, couldn't come online due to laptop crash.
So was not able to come online, still the laptop is down,
while trying to fix it, I brought a friends desktop to get online.

Well in the past days I was thinking of making a scale-model of the kayak,
with the same material - Bamboo. And I started out with work.
[attached are the building photos and the final scale-model, made a canoe lol]

Bamboo splits were made out of a bigger bamboo, and shaved and sanded to avoid split ends.
When i had the enough number of them, I and a friend started out with making the first structure. Here are the steps we followed one by one:

1. First two gunwales were attached at ends with strings.
2. A middle temporary rib was inserted and held
3. then two ribs one after another was inserted and lashed
4. lashing the model gave insight on the larger lashings I might make in the real scenario.
5. now the bow and stern stems went in, lashing over
6. with a semi tight stern and bow stem, the keel was lashed
7. now the stringers went in, made the shape look right, repairing any twists that was visible so far.
8. we lashed the ribs with care, and made sure it is tight between the gunwales and the stringers.
9. When completing the stringers we thought we should have cut short one end, the stern or bow to give it that shape. But nevertheless we finished it with a plastic wrap,

It's too light, but looks neat, still haven't tried the floating test.
Should make some seating pad and then put some weight and test.

Things understood in the process:

1.Need saw horses
2. need some kind of strongback
3. what goes first, what goes next, [this scale-model saved a lot of trial and error]
4. How bamboo behaves, to bending, cutting, peeling, rubbing, etc
5. Greatly gave an insight on lashing with and without wax, we waxed the last few ribs.

The scale-model metrics:

LOA: 73.5cm
Height: 23cm
Width: 20.4cm
What do you all think?