Hi all,

After lurking here for nearly two years, I thought I should crawl out from the woodwork and introduce myself. My name is Tim Sheehan and I'm building my first kayak, a strip Guillemot. With the help of this forum as well as the web sites of many of the participants, and of course Nick's books, I've managed to get to the point of attaching the first strip to the forms. The quick details of the build are:

Western red cedar, staples, rolling bevel, internal and external stems.

The gory details, mistakes and all, can be found at http://timskayaking.blogspot.com/

The attached picture shows the fruits of my labor as of last Saturday.