So here's what's been going on.  The speakers are in and lookin' good.

I've also started to design the pontoons.  I'm building a "to scale" model out of bristol board.  That way I can take it apart and use the pieces as my layout guide on the plywood.

This is what the middle of the pontoon is going to look like.

The project is moving into the living room.  That is the plywood that I'm going to use for the pontoon and the wing.  It's doubling as my layout area for cutting the bristol board with a box cutter.

Here is the bristol board cut into strips and stapled together.  The pontoons won't be this long.  I just needed to make them this long to account for the outward bend.  They will be cut to length tomorrow night.

I'm done for tonight.  I'm tired.  Should be a busy week ahead.  The clock is ticking.

So over the course of last night and tonight and finding out that Canadian Tire and Kent close at 9pm not 9:30pm, I got this done.

This is the lee board attachment which will also double as wheel axle.  It's on there pretty good.  I made sure of that.  The two posts are the motorcycle handles.  Also known as the speaker attachments.  All will be made clear soon.

Tomorrow work will be done on the mast step.

I've done the calculations and the mast should come up just fore of the cockpit.  This may prove difficult.  I may have to install a bow sprit, but I'm going to do a test to see if I can get in and out of it easily if the mast is in that position.  If I can get in and out then that's where it will be.

More tomorrow.

It is flipped.

Thanks Neil.

Drilled some holes for the lee board attachments too.  I'm going to double the attachments as wheel axles for when transporting from the car to the water.  Pretty slick eh!

Ok.  So here is what happened on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.  I worked on the hatch seal and the cover for the battery that was in the previous post.

Here I got some tubing and attached it to the top of the hull.  This was not as easy as it sounds and took a couple of days to complete.  I had to wait about 4 hours for the epoxy to get sticky enough to get it to stick to the hull then hold it together with claps.  I tried Krazy Glue, but it was useless.

Here's what it looked like with the clamps.  I put a wooden BBQ skewer in the tube where the ends met at the left hand side of the photo.  The clamps are just there to hold the tubing in place and to keep it from rising up.  The red clamps are directly on the tubing, but that is where the skewer is, so it'll still be round and not out of shape.

Here is is all finished and looking good.  I have to work on the hatch cover, but the new design for that should be a tighter seal.

Next on the menu is the how the battery cover will be secured.  I wanted to do a hinge where the bolt

is, but it was impossible.  The "deck-head" is too low for the cover to move.

So here is what the final product looks like.

Here is from the other side.  I was thinking about sealing up this door.  I originally installed this door to slide in extra long poles.  I have a wheel attachment that comes apart and can slide in through this cockpit door into the aft hold that won't fit in through the top hatch.  I'll keep it open for now.  The bottom is high enough so that what water that does get in from my shoes and whatnot won't reach over the bottom of the bulkhead.

Time for the big flip tomorrow night so I can start work on the lee board attachments and the mast step. The speakers are going to attach to the lee board attachments.  The other paddlers are going to hate me. This is going to be awesome.

So I got my sails on the weekend.  That's about all I did there.  The jib is all right, but the main sail is pretty darn big.  Might have to do some modifications.  Tonight's project was building a box to fit around the battery in case water got in the hatch.  I wanted it to have a hinge on it, but no such luck.   It's a little too big.  That is all tonight.  I have to work on the hatch next so I can flip it.  That should be semi-easy.

I got it sanded and ready for the paint.  That'll happen when the main hull is done.

I took a video to show how effective it is, but it wouldn't load.  Maybe next time.

Ok.  I forgot to post this a couple of days ago.  I've been pretty busy.  

I put the aft handle on.  I still have to sand it so these pictures are actually current.  I'm going to sand the bumps off soon.  That's if I have time.

So here it is.  I coved the hull in cling wrap so none of the epoxy would get on the hull.  I did cut a hole in it so I could epoxy the magnet holder to the hull.

Here it is done.  I used rare earth magnets.  That will make them work better than the shower curtain magnets I used for the first set of handles.  Those tended to fall off when it got rough.  I don't think these will be going anywhere.

I find that doing the handles this way are a giant waste of epoxy, but they look super cool when their done.  It's so handy to just set the handle down and not have to worry about it dragging in the water.

With the left over epoxy I brushed up the lee board struts.  Why not.  They needed it any.  

I pick up sails from a P14 sail boat on Sunday.  I might design the mast to fit the sails or I may have to alter the sails, depending on how big they are.  If I do alter them it will just be to make them shorter.  I probably won't though.  I don't want to mess around with the stitching.  We'll see.

Later.

Tonight was a busy night.  I got the wood work done for the lee boards support.  Below is the pic of the Port side.  The Starboard is in the back ground.  There is a 1/4 inch hole running down the the centre of the long piece.  The idea was to have a rod running through the whole unit.  Found out drilling a hole that long straight is rather difficult.  So I'll just run it through the hull and put a nut and cotter pin inside the hull.   It'll be high enough inside so that it won't hurt my knees.  

Here is the wing supports all epoxied up.  The wood on top is a support template so all the threaded rods are pointing the same direction.  Up and straight.

Here is the mast base getting epoxied together.  I put two 5/16 dowels in there to keep it together.  I didn't exactly get the two pieces square, so I'll just sand them square later.  It's all good.

Soon we'll be ready for the big flip.  Soon as in tomorrow night when the wing supports will be dry.  Switching the kayak end for end so the bow is over the tarp in the dining room.  Exciting times we're living in.  

I'm glad it's cold and rainy out right now.  I don't feel that bad having my kayak inside.

I forgot to post this last night, so here are the wing pegs dry installed.  I have to make a square template that will hold all the threaded rods upright and in position while the epoxy dries.  Probably not going to happen this weekend because I'm too busy.  Probably next week.

I got a good lead on used sails for a P14 sail boat.  With a little modifications I can use them for my project.

So the remaining things to do on the main body of the kayak are to finish the wing mounts, the mast base, lee boards (at least the part that attaches to the kayak), new handles on the bow and stern (because the old ones rotted off), and to work on the cargo hatch to make it more water proof.  Now that I have a battery sitting in there I don't want to get it wet.  Busy times ahead.  I hope I can get this all done to at least hit the water just for kayaking by July.