: IIRC it's a fascinating collection of construction techniques, glass tape on
: the ends of the chine but only thick fillets in the cockpit and NO glass?
: Pre-glass of panels before stitching up. Does your kit use 2oz and 4oz or
: just 4oz cloth?

: When I saw it being built up at CLC it opened up the idea of preglassing the
: underside of the bent decks which would have addressed the original
: unglassed CapeCharles and Chesapeake deaks weaknesses.

: Be that as it may you can experiment away with the designers intention
: although it may displease him.

: Regarding saving weight,,you could probably save a couple pounds of weight if
: you replaced glass tape with cut strips of 6oz cloth and made minimal
: endpours and fillets. Depending on how much you like to round over the
: chines on the outside you could go from very narrow fillets to 3/4"
: wide or so with cloth or tape over that.

: Regarding that wood strip in the middle I think that is a cosmetically neat
: way to handle that joint if there's no tape or glass applied post
: fillet/gluing the seams. Is there cloth applied to the interior after
: stitiching or is the pre-glassing to the bottom panels is all that's
: there?

: I like the idea of pre-glassing the panels, they're flexible enough that the
: glass doesn't provide any inhibition ot bending and it allow one to apply
: epoxy very efficiently and ensure an even and thorough sealing without
: having to deal with vertical surfaces in a stitched hull of raw ply.

: If you're really concerned about making a lighter kayak it would have made
: sense to pick a smaller kayak.

: Could you describe the preglassing on the hull panels or the complete
: glassing schedule on the hull minus any method of joining, fillets or
: tape?
Lee,I will review the instructions and post them, hope the designer does not mind too much. He has some pretty neat ideas. CLC says this boat is way up there in the S & G world of kit building. The instructions are amazing--somethinglike 400 pages!! 4 to 5 pictures on most pages.
\thanks for the thoughts