I finally made time to work on my boat tonight. This Friday is my last day at my current job, and I start my new one on Monday, so I have been busy. I have also made a bookshelf between now and my last PakYak update. I went out and bought a brand new bicycle …
Category Archives: kayak
PakYak Guestbook
I am looking at the access logs for my blog, and I see that people are looking at my PakYak information from all over the world. If you like what you see, leave a comment to this post as a way of “signing a guestbook”. Let us know where your from and if your building …
I broke my boat!
I got a little bit rough with the kayak frame tonight. Grabbing it by one end and pushing and dragging it around while I am trying to work on it. One of the side stringers broke in the middle of the boat. There was a void in one of the plys and it snapped right there. …
End Brace Detail
I recessed in a pan headed screw into the wood stringer because I was worried that a flat headed screw would split the end of the stringer. Here you see the end brace. Most of the bolts have been cut down. The nuts are recessed into the wood so everything is flush. Here you can see the …
Cutting the long bolts down to size.
I couldn’t find bolts that where 5/8ths, or 7/8ths or 9/8ths, so I had to make them. From what I have found the best tool for the job is an electricians wire cutters. I am not fond of this style of wire cutter for doing electrical work, but the built in bolt cutters are the …