Strip Building the Expedition Single Sea Kayak

March 16 and 17, 1998

• Preparing inside for the fiberglass and then the fiberglassing.
• Scraping the inside
• Cleaning up the cockpit coaming
• Laying down kevlar
• Wetting out with epoxy resin

Scraping off glue.

Planing.

Rasping inside of coaming.

Some dookie schmutz to make a fillet.

Laying in Kevlar and smoothing it out.

Partially wet out Kevlar.

Pouring in more epoxy resin.

Trimming the fiberglass (4 oz) around the coaming.

Cloth wet out, showing Kevlar ribs.

Finished hull.

Finished deck.

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