Sea kayaks are designed to handle well in open water and for paddling longer distances.
The articles in the late great print magazine “Sea Kayaker” featured articles of people doing multi day expeditions to far exotic places. Today’s legendary kayaks became legendary because of the legendary expeditions to remote shores in which they were used.
People associate me with wood. I understand, they see me paddling wooden kayaks, the wood is the most obvious difference that draws people's attention and they assume that the wood part of the equation is what I'm interested in. But I make kayaks because I am interested in kayaks.
Pre staining the cockpit recess so it will match the rest of the boat.
I often get questions to the effect of: "I have trouble keeping up with my friends, what kayak should I get?" Everyone knows that longer kayaks are faster, so obviously I should be recommending the longest kayaks I have to these folks.
In this episode I break expensive router bits and tear apart expensive plywood.
All that is left to strip is the back deck. I need trim to the feature line between the side and the back deck.
Getting the centerline exactly in the center helps assure the strips on either side will be a perfect mirror image.