So I figured I should be able to fit a 3 meter kayak in, the space is easily big enough, the issue will be getting it through the door, but 3m should be manageable.
As usual, every kayak starts with shopping for lumber.
We went out and got 10 planks, 120x22mm x 3meters, a bunch of rib stock (about 30 meters) and some baseboard for the coaming.
And then comes ripping the planks down to the relevant width.
I went a bit overboard here, because I've had gunwales break while bending them into the forms before, and I didn't want to get the circle saw out again once I was done with it.
So I made 6 gunwale planks, and 8 chine/keel planks, enough to break a gunwale and a chine on each boat.
I also went overboard with the shopping, as you can see in the bottom right I had 5 of the 10 planks I bought left over.
As for the shape I had looked around at playboats and surf kayaks, because that's what you usually get with a kayak this short, and decided to not make it as pointy, so I made the back end about 40 cm wide, but kept the front pointy.
So it will be about 3 meters long, 60 cm wide, pointy in the bow, with a flat/rounded stern.
I got started on fitting the shape, and adding the flat deck beams.
After about 4 hours I had gunwales and deck beams put together for both boats.
And that's it for this weekend, next weekend we're moving, and all of this will go into our storage space, and I'll finish it up there.
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