Building a Guillemot

I had long wanted to build a boat of some kind. I looked at some stitch and glue kayaks

some coworkers built and was interested. I found Nick Schade's book on strip built

construction and I was hooked. I decided to build the Guillemot model from the book.

I didn't have a garage at the time, so I claimed an area at my place of employment to

build during my lunch hour.

Here's the forms. All the stuff in the background is the remnants of a pattern shop.

There used to be a foundry in the building next door. There's a 24" planer on the

other side of the shop from the kayak.

I'm making good progress on the stripping process in this photo. I'm using cedar, pine

and mahogany.

I skipped a few steps in the photos. Here's the long awaited launch. Most everything

in the building process went well. I discovered I don't really care for working with

fiberglass. Maybe the next boat will be a skin on frame...

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