Sea Tour 17 EXP
This is my first skin-on-frame (SOF) kayak. I used free plans from yostwerks.com. I made a commitment at the beginning of the project to build with 100% recycled, reused or re-purposed materials. Plywood came from a neighbors trash and a friends old home made checker board. Wood for the stringers came from a pile of treated lumber that I bought on clearance at Lowes to build a framework for rolling my sharpie egret. I saved the pieces. I ripped 3/4" by 3/4" pcs and scarfed them to get long knot free stringers. I did buy on tube of PL Premium for glue. The skin is 13oz vinyl scrim donated by Conestoga DPI. They generously gave me approx. 5' x 40' of excess material from their shop. I had a partial bottle of contact cement and a friend gave me the last bit in the bottom of a can he had. I painted the wood frame before stretching the skin over it with a two part water based epoxy paint complements of Lancaster Creative Reuse. They were delighted when I took nearly 25 gals of various paints off their hands! Varnish on the coaming comes from a can given me by my brother-in-law. The Greenland style paddle is redwood that I pulled from a construction site dumpster. I got two 4' 2x6s and scarfed them together to get the needed length. Thank you to all my friends for making this possible and to my family for letting me use half the garage this winter.
Sea Tour 17 EXP lines drawing
Sea Tour 17 EXP off sets
Sea Tour 17 EXP lines drawing
Sea Tour 17 EXP off sets