Preparation of Stripping Deck

Preparation of Stripping Deck

Well today was spent mostly cleaning up and regrouping in preparations for stripping the deck. I had to remove the cove off of the strips that would be glued together to form the centerline and glue them together. This would leave a bead facing outwards toward the sides to match up with the upward facing cove on the first strips to be placed along the sheerline. In turn all of the in between strips would will have the same orientation as far as the bead and cove goes. The strips that will start the outside edge will run the full length of the kayak so I did have to epoxy them together using scarf joints. Tomorrow will be the big day for the start of actually attaching these aforementioned pieces which will form the framework for the fill strips. Before this can happen, I still need to line the inside of the hull with some kind of protective liner to