Just build it!!

If your boat is a "learning" boat, then go cheap and skip the marine plywood and look for some void-free 5.2 mm ply for $15 for 4x8.

Skip scarfs. Butt joins are fine. I just taped the seams on my Guillemot S&G... even quicker and easier than butt joins.

I bought cheap, off-brand epoxy on ebay, and I was delighted with the results. Glass too!

I learned everything I need to build a fleet of boats, and I am well on my way to hopeless boat-building addiction. My S&G ended up a little heavy, and a little homely, but these are flaws only I can see.

Just build it!

The Guillemot S&G is a fabulous design. I have the form ready to build for the Guillemot stripper, but it has been hanging around for a couple years because I have so much fun paddling the S&G. The stripper is coming soon.

Thank you Nick for the designs!

: I'm new so please bear with me.
: I'm interested in building a S&G Guillemot as a first attempt
: to build a wood kayak. My ultimate goal is to build a strip
: kayak, but I want to start with something simpler.
: I have glassed boats, surfboards and foam core sea kayaks before,
: so that is not new to me.

: I have figured out I need 3 sheets of 4x8 plywood.
: How much fibreglass cloth do I need, or maybe which width should I
: get? I see there is 30" and 50".
: The epoxy also confuses me, which type should I get and how much of
: it?

: Thanks in advance.
: Ettienne