: It's getting too cold now for building (hovering around freezing)
: and I can't heat the garage well enough to work with Titebond
: 111 let alone epoxy, so I need an indoor project until it warms
: up. I have a grandson, and would like to build him a boat. I
: know I could do something quite quick in SOF or S&G but I
: would realy like to strip build it.
: I don't seem to be able to find any plans for strip built kids'
: kayaks, so my thoughts were to reduce a Great Auk, then I can
: sit number crunching and drawing for a while, but as I have no
: experience or knowledge of this kind of alteration from design
: size, could all you "Old Hands" comment on stability
: and other criteria. I was considering a 3/4 x cross section,
: which gives an overall beam of 18" and a WL beam of
: 17.1". The OAL x 2/3 would be 11ft 4" or OAL x 3/5
: would be 10ft 2". I'm still pondering this.
: As he is still a little under 3yrs old it will initialy be too
: large anyway, (could I go even smaller?) but plenty of time for
: building and room for growth. It will probably end up as a hand
: me down which also seems like a nice idea.
: Any thoughts? Les C.

Oh yeah btw, no reason you can't build one of Tom's (Yost) boats as a stripper, many have.

Bill H.