The ways are many
Next up is making a paddle. You need clamps again 🙂 There are as many ways to laminate a paddle as there are paddle makers! Here is one way if you just care about trying to protect a softer wood…
Laminating curved deck beams
(Steaming hot featured image by Rickard F)One of the most rewarding tasks in building your Greenland kayak is probably laminating the deck beams. You go from thin strips of wood to a beautiful curved deck beams with something like 10…
Polyurethane color and saturation test
I finally got around to try out our Polyurethane on some scrap nylon fabric. Unfortunately I didn’t have a brush handy and there was some unsecurity about the ratios, but everything stuck and penetrated the cloth well. I even overcolored…
Easter Woodwork
Someone supposedly cobbled together a few planks 2000 years ago to nail a dude to them. If you think that’s grim, what about a part of humanity, quite logically, celebrate this with eating eggs from hen (gender neutral?) and go…
Miscellaneous rim day
Yesterday I wanted to catch up with the other builders, so I steam bent a second coaming lip and a hatch lip. Today, Saturday, was all about sanding and prepping the coaming and the hatch rim. Had a little paddle…
Retrofit hatch on a skin on frame kayak
Ok ok. I know it’s not very stylish and a deviation far from the East Greenland kayak originals, but I am not comfortable with the cheapo Polyurethane on this otherwise wonderful kayak’s skin. I sawed off and lowered the Isserfiq,…
Coaming lip evening
Some of us met up on a nice Tuesday evening two days after having started the build. Our main objective was to make a second coaming and a coaming lip without cracks. Some cracked but not to worry, we have…
The Plåtskåp
Although theft is uncommon at the boat club, tools tend to be spread a little thinner among members over time. Solution? I thought a lockable tin can, or sheet metal cabinet if you want to be precise, would do the…
Coaming day
A big (Sun)day for everyone and the first proper sunny weather we’ve had for a week. Everyone was stoked and possibly a bit confused as to what to do first, but working in pairs boosted self confidence. Decisions Some decisions…
Ripping Oak and Ash
One almost feels bad chopping up beautiful fresh boards into tiny ribs and what not, but just almost. When ripping the slightly thicker, 8 mm Oak for coamings, it was so flexible coming off the saw I had to resist…
First meet and measure up
Forgot to write this post before, but this day, finally, we got to stop just talking but actually get to do something. With miserable weather and all ordered goods for building just on the way, we decided to make a…
Paulownia for kayak building
(/pɔːˈloʊniə/ paw-LOH-nee-ə) Paulowniaceae, the order Lamiales. This is from Wikipedia. All we know is that it’s light and might be nice for building a kayak. Not easy to get hold of in Sweden though. Supply is limited due to it being imported from…