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Greenland Kayak Mk II: Stats
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Greenland Kayak Mk II. Wood: 650 Swedish crowns/65 euro. Skin: 40 euro (got a good discount from www.groenlaender.de because he accidentally sent me a skin that was a bit short for my previous project.). Varnish/Paint: 450 Swedish crowns/45 Euro. Total: 1500 Swedish crowns/150 euro. Day 1: 7 Hours. Gunwales shaped and marked, rib mortises cut, forms fitted. (2 hours of it was catching up when the bad gunwale broke). Day 2: 3 Hours. Deck beams cut and fitted. Ribs bent and fitted. Day 3: 3½ Hours.
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Greenland Kayak Mk II: July 2011
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Greenland Kayak Mk II. Sunday, 10 July 2011. As planned, I gave the kayak to my girlfriend as a birthday present, and I'd say it all went well. Of course it also came with a paddle, and a pair of wetsuit gloves (I got blisters from my paddle the first time I paddled so I figured better to wear gloves.). It's a bit hard to see in this picture, but the kayak weighs just over 10 KG, which I count as a success as she needs to be able to carry it. :P. Which she did, down to the beach! Tuesday, 5 July 2011.
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Greenland Kayak Mk II: June 2011
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Greenland Kayak Mk II. Thursday, 30 June 2011. Apparently blogger.com crashed and killed my post. :. Anyways, I went out again yesterday. After a false start because I'm lazy when it comes to measuring I got the stemplates cut out, and got the keel lashed on without any trouble. The chines gave me a little bit of trouble as they simply wouldn't bend enough, so in the end I cut some new one's that were a bit thinner and got them lashed on. So more or less done with the frame now. Tuesday, 28 June 2011.
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Inner city SoF Kayaks: Stats
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Inner city SoF Kayaks. Day 1: 4 hours. Ripped gunwales, chines etc, fitted and attached straight deck beams for both kayaks. Day 2: 7 hours. Made rib mortices 4 hours. Cut and bent ribs 3 hours. Day 3: 5 hours. Attached keel/chines: 3 hours. Attached skeg: 1 hour. Drew up the shape of stemplates and deck beam: 1 hour. Wood: 400 Swedish crowns 40 Euro. Skin: 100 swedish crowns 10 Euro. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. I got started on the Keel and chines late monday e.
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Greenland Kayak Mk II: Day 4
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Greenland Kayak Mk II. Friday, 1 July 2011. I put a tarp around the kayak, and fastened it along the top with clamps, and went for a test paddle. It tracks fairly ok, it turns a little bit, but I managed to paddle straight with a bit of surf, so I'd say it's ok. :P. As for stability, it's great, it's stable enough that you don't have to focus on it, but it feels like you could still flip it without too much trouble. Time spent day 4: 1½ hours. Seat slats, oiled frame, coaming form made. Day 5, 6 and 7.
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Greenland Kayak Mk II: Day 1
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Greenland Kayak Mk II. Monday, 20 June 2011. Yesterday I started building a Greenland style Skin-on-frame Kayak for my girlfriend. At around 1 PM we went to buy lumber, with a final bill of about 650 Swedish Crowns (65 euro). The wood is primarily Spruce (Gran). I got out the circle saw, and started ripping the planks for gunwales, deck ribs and chines/keel. With the gunwales, chines/keel and deckribs cut to width i had two spare boards, apparently I overbought. :P. As i was bending it, and asking my gir...
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Inner city SoF Kayaks
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Inner city SoF Kayaks. Wednesday, 16 November 2011. I got started on the Keel and chines late monday evening, and finished them up last night. I decided to try nailing them on, mostly just to try something different, and I thought it would be faster than lashing. It turned out to be a lot slower than lashing, and I had to put at least two nails at different angles into every rib/chine junction, and in the end I still had to lash the ends where the pressure was too much for the nails to hold.
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Greenland Kayak Mk II: Day 5, 6 and 7.
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Greenland Kayak Mk II. Tuesday, 5 July 2011. Day 5, 6 and 7. I went out friday after work, and bent the coaming. For reasons beyond me i decided to start the coaming at the front end, where the bend is most acute. so it was no big surprise when the wood didn't quite cooperate with me on that part. However, I'm still pleased enough with the end result that I didn't bother bending a new one. I also put some padding on the seat, the backrest and under the heels as you can see. I tied the coaming on with str...
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Inner city SoF Kayaks: Day 1
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Inner city SoF Kayaks. Sunday, 30 October 2011. We're moving to Malmö next weekend, and we're going to live about 1 KM from the canals, which of course means I want a kayak we can fit into our storage space! So I figured I should be able to fit a 3 meter kayak in, the space is easily big enough, the issue will be getting it through the door, but 3m should be manageable. As usual, every kayak starts with shopping for lumber. And then comes ripping the planks down to the relevant width. And that's it for t...
