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Re: Review: How long to build a kayak ?
By:Bob Beaullieu
Date: 9/14/2009, 10:02 am
In Response To: Re: Review: How long to build a kayak ? (Robert Warren)

I'm currently building my second strip boat and it seems to be going a little bit quicker than the first now that I know what to do.

The first boat took right at 250 hours per my log book (I'm not keeping one on my 2nd boat). I build from a Redfish kit so my forms were already cut and my wood strips were already milled. I built a carbon fiber coaming and fiberglass hatch rims using One Ocean Kayak methods.

Overall, the 250 hours took me 9 months to do given that life happens while you are building (kids / wife / job). Also, I bet I spent half again as much time standing back admiring how good the boat looked all during the build.

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Review: How long to build a kayak ?
WONG -- 9/12/2009, 7:55 pm
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PatrickC -- 9/21/2009, 8:16 pm
17-18 ft is good :) *NM*
Ross Leidy -- 9/21/2009, 3:04 pm
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Scott Fitzgerrell -- 9/14/2009, 7:38 pm
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Robert Warren -- 9/14/2009, 8:39 am
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Bob Beaullieu -- 9/14/2009, 10:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/13/2009, 8:38 am
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Andy Waddington -- 9/21/2009, 5:28 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2009, 12:43 am
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Andy Waddington -- 9/22/2009, 5:28 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2009, 1:57 am
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Ken Blanton -- 9/13/2009, 4:35 pm
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george jung -- 9/13/2009, 10:10 pm
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Deano -- 9/12/2009, 8:50 pm
Re: Review: How long to build a kayak ? *LINK*
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 9/13/2009, 12:27 am
Re: Review: How long to build a kayak ? *Pic*
Clayton Plunkett -- 9/14/2009, 10:08 am
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Andy Boyd -- 9/21/2009, 2:23 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/21/2009, 10:42 pm
Re: Review: How long to build a kayak ? *Pic*
Clayton Plunkett -- 9/14/2009, 10:15 am
A winter *NM*
Jay Babina -- 9/12/2009, 8:34 pm