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Building the Petrel Sea Kayak Videos

In 2010 I started making a strip-built Petrel sea kayak using cedar strips, fiberglass and Carbon-Kevlar Cloth. I documented much of the process on video and below are the short videos I produced showing many of the building techniques incorporated. The above video provides a quick overview, follow the links below for more detailed looks at the individual steps.

  • Milling Cedar Strips for a Bookmatched Petrel
  • Making Forms for a Wood Strip Kayak
  • Assembling Forms to Make Strip-Planked Wooden Sea Kayak
  • Installing the Sheer Strips
  • Installing Cheater Strips
  • Stripping past the Chine
  • Installing the Keel Strips
  • Stripping up the Bottom
  • Fitting the Closing Strip
  • Starting The Deck
  • Stripping across a Feature Line
  • Repairing a Split Strip
  • Continuing to Strip up the Deck
  • Installing the Coaming Recess
  • Fairing and Sanding the Petrel
  • Staining Video
  • Putting an Accent Strip on a Stained Hull
  • Fiberglassing the Petrel Deck and Hull
  • Applying Fill Coats - Light and Heavy
  • Carbon/Kevlar, Carbon Fiber and Glass on the Petrel Interior
  • Overview of Making the Cockpit Coaming
  • Feed-Through Kayak Deck Fittings
  • Installing Cheek Plates in the Kayak Cockpit

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      • Building the Petrel Sea Kayak Videos
        • Milling Cedar Strips for a Bookmatched Petrel
        • Making Forms for a Wood Strip Kayak
        • Assembling Forms to Make Strip-Planked Wooden Sea Kayak
        • Installing the Sheer Strips
        • Installing Cheater Strips
        • Stripping past the Chine
        • Installing the Keel Strips
        • Stripping up the Bottom
        • Fitting the Closing Strip
        • Starting The Deck
        • Stripping across a Feature Line
        • Repairing a Split Strip
        • Continuing to Strip up the Deck
        • Installing the Coaming Recess
        • Fairing and Sanding the Petrel
        • Staining Video
        • Putting an Accent Strip on a Stained Hull
        • Fiberglassing the Petrel Deck and Hull
        • Applying Fill Coats - Light and Heavy
        • Carbon/Kevlar, Carbon Fiber and Glass on the Petrel Interior
        • Overview of Making the Cockpit Coaming
        • Feed-Through Kayak Deck Fittings
        • Installing Cheek Plates in the Kayak Cockpit
      • Building the Night Heron Videos
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Tradition

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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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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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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