Paddle no 7

The paddle was originally too large and unwieldy. I have now lighten it about 300 grams . The weight is now 1265 grams. Since this is my first paddle, It will do. Now I´m waiting for one or two layers Colean so it will not crack.

Spring is here!

Spring is here!

Yesterday I washed the kayak. It all started when I received an email from Daniele who wanted to know a bit about the nylon from FOV I used on the kayak. It made me wake up from winter doze. It's always hard to start after the winter, especially this very long winter. Many different bids when such vinter occurred last, but sure is that it not later than 1987 have been so much snow here.

Once again thanks to Daniele!

Kayak no 33

Now the deck lines and toggles are in place.

In front of and behind the coaming I used 6 mm rubber cord.









In the bow and stern I used 6 mm deck rope.

Kayak no 32

The kayak do not leak!

Unfortunately it blew too much for a first test paddle. Becuse the only thing I had with me were a life jacket and a greenland paddle. What I'm waiting for some good weather combined with a free moment, so I can test paddle it for real.


Now there some job with the deck lines etcetera.

Kayak no 31

Has begun the work on the deck toggles. These are manufactured of one piece Jarrah coming from my grandmother's old outdoor table. Jarrah is according to NE "wood is heavy, hard and strong and has excellent resistance to rot and insects."
This sounds promising for something that will constantly be flushed with water.





Ropes, I ordered from kajaksaker.se 10 meters each of rubber cord 6 mm and deck rope 6 mm.
Ordered at 5:00 pm on Tuesday and received the delivery at 1:00 pm on Thursday, That's very good delivery time I think! Must also add that the 10 meters was almost 11 meters.

Re-thanks to Kajaksaker.se!

Kayak no 30

The final coat of the kayak!
I did a third and hopefully last layer on the bottom this afternoon. Now I just waiting on a sunny day off for a first try on water.
The last layer of coat was the easiest to do and there was enough whit half jar ZAR polyurethane varnish. If you want the kayak in a solid color it´s required about 100 grams of artist oil paint / layer.


The picture is taken before coating!

Kayak no 29

After rain comes sunshine! So they say, and it is the truth because it has been raining! Somewhere they said it was the coldest and most rainy June in 50 years.
So now when the sun is shining, it was time to paint a little on the kayak. I have done the bottom once, and the deck two times. This time I used plenty of artist oil paint in the warnish.





But wow what difficult it is to get evenly without running warnish.

Are not visible in the pictures but I have had to scrape of a lot of warnish between the coats.