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hi there,
welcome to the place where you can ask anything, & nobody will lough @ you.
just ask. ask before you nake the mistake, or after it. you'll have a much better kayak if you ask. so many kayaks had been built, that all your mistakes already happened to somebody else, & you can be sure he is on this bbs.
here are my tips:
1. don't touch your kit until you finish reading chris k's book.
pygmy's way of doing kayaks is a little different than what
chris describes in his book, but it will still give you
a very good idea.
2. visit this bbs every day or 2. you'll learn many things that
you didn't even thought about asking.
3. copy/paste stuff that you think might be relevant to you,
to your hard drive. text & images.
4. If you see a message with the name "Rehd", don't read it,
it will be a complete waste of time. Hmm..just kidding.
huh, Rehd, I got you on this one. :o)))
5. check my site. I'm building a coho as well.
maybe you'll find something you'd want to copy to your hd.
I'm not done with it & i'm adding stuff as I progress:
http://homepages.go.com/~fl_pelican/home.htm
erez
> My coho kit just arrived the other day and I am anxious to get started
> (got to bulldoze the garage clean first). My space is cramped, does anyone
> have advice about building in a tight space?
> I'm in central NY and it gets kinda cold here and I'm a bit concerned
> about expoxy in cold weather. The epoxy book sort of talks about this,
> probably more than I noticed in my initial read through. I think I will
> have to go back and basically memorize the pygmy instructions and all the
> pertainent info in the epoxy book before I actually begin.
> The instructions that came with the kit are a bit sparse (at least for
> me). I remember reading here about a book by Chris Kulczycki that folks
> recommended, but I can't find the name (server error in archive search).
> Could someone tell me?
> Also, if anyone has a list of handy tools that pygmy doesn't mention it
> would help. I guess now that the stuff is here and I am actually faced
> with doing the work it seems a little more intimidating. This is probably
> normal (hopefully I'm under the bell curve someplace:-))
> Having never attempted anything like this before, I am really glad this
> BBS exists. I just hope I don't become annoying before I'm done. At least
> I can't be shot over the net (can I?)
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