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Building the Night Heron Videos

I'm building a Night Heron kayak using cove and bead western red cedar. I'm taking some video as I go. I hope you find the following helpful.

  • Milling the Cove and Bead on a Router Table
  • Cove and Bead Strips on a Night Heron
  • Stripping the deck of the Night Heron kayak using Cove and Bead cedar strips
  • Removing Staples from a Strip Built Boat
  • Making the Coaming Recess for a Strip Kayak
  • How to Make a Kayak - Scraping, Sanding and Fairing and Dust Control
  • How to Make a Kayak - Staining with an Edge
  • How to Make a Kayak - Fiberglassing the outside
  • How to Make a Kayak - Cleaning up the Interior
  • How to Make a Kayak - Fiberglassing the Inside

Book traversal links for Building the Night Heron Videos

  • ‹ Installing Cheek Plates in the Kayak Cockpit
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  • Project Overview
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        • Milling the Cove and Bead on a Router Table
        • Cove and Bead Strips on a Night Heron
        • Stripping the deck of the Night Heron kayak using Cove and Bead cedar strips
        • Removing Staples from a Strip Built Boat
        • Making the Coaming Recess for a Strip Kayak
        • How to Make a Kayak - Scraping, Sanding and Fairing and Dust Control
        • How to Make a Kayak - Staining with an Edge
        • How to Make a Kayak - Fiberglassing the outside
        • How to Make a Kayak - Cleaning up the Interior
        • How to Make a Kayak - Fiberglassing the Inside
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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.

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Translating a Wood Kayak into Fiberglass

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.

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Staining the Recess - microBootlegger Sport - E30

Pre staining the cockpit recess so it will match the rest of the boat.

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Plans Price Increase

If you received my last newsletter, it will not be a surprise that we are raising our plans prices. We have held our prices constant for the past 15 or so years, but over that time the cost of printing has increased by over 50% and other business expenses have also increased.

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