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Re: Strip: Legroom with recessed cockpit
By:Phil Knight
Date: 9/13/2014, 6:23 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Legroom with recessed cockpit (mick allen)

Mick, thanks for all the advice and encouragement to alter the cockpit if necessary after paddling the kayak enough to see where, or if, it needs any alterations. I guess it probably is an easy enough job, just a difficult decision for me to start hacking it about!

The coaming is not plywood (as on the Chesapeake), the riser is 1/4" strips and the rim formed from 1/8"x3/8" laminations of ash. I think it would probably be a case of cutting out the whole recessed area, making the opening larger if necessary, and rebuilding it, possibly using the method you describe in your previous post with the excellent illustrations. Or perhaps even creating a large open cockpit as in the clc Wood Ducks and Mill creeks - but only after extensive trials. It might not look as I want, but if it makes a practical and usable boat...........

Anyway, I appreciate the input, and I feel all the more motivated to complete this build one way or the other - and then think about the next project!

Phil

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Strip: Legroom with recessed cockpit
Phil Knight -- 9/11/2014, 9:55 am
Re: Strip: Legroom with recessed cockpit
Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2014, 11:31 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/11/2014, 12:29 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/11/2014, 1:06 pm
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mick allen -- 9/11/2014, 3:48 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/11/2014, 12:50 pm
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Phil Knight -- 9/11/2014, 7:41 pm
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howard -- 9/11/2014, 8:48 pm
Re: Strip: Legroom with recessed cockpit *PIC*
mick allen -- 9/12/2014, 1:39 am
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Phil Knight -- 9/12/2014, 2:19 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/12/2014, 7:58 am
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Phil Knight -- 9/12/2014, 2:06 pm
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mick allen -- 9/13/2014, 1:40 am
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Phil Knight -- 9/13/2014, 6:23 am
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howard -- 9/13/2014, 11:04 am
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Phil Knight -- 9/13/2014, 2:32 pm