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I'm thinking about making your Christmas Cake. I think that will do the job.

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I've yet to post the real one....that's a hit!!!

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The real one. Did you actually make the cake?

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No...A strawberry Margarita pie!

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Billy,
I really liked your idea of edging the deck with a different material, but the problem I was having was fitting the deck inside of the sides as per plans. Looking back now I would have moved the blocking inside the bulkheads up flush with the sides and attached the decking on top of the sides and trimmed to fit. Well, I went ahead and installed the deck inside of the sides and applied a heavy coat of thickened epoxy. I like to do this for settling and it gives me enough material to true the edge before I round it off. I know I end up sanding off a lot of extra material, but I don't have to go back and touch up low areas and sand again. Here is a picture with the heavy coat on.

Now a shot after sanding all put the starboard side flush. I will round over next.

Last but not least, a shot of where my saw went crazy on me. Pirate, I am leaning towards you suggestion of painting the over lap of the deck and sides to hid my seam. Now for the big question. Colors? Oh, yeah I let the plywood get too hot in that on area. Always keep your sander moving.

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I just had a thought....maybe some of those bumpers....er...I mean rub-rails like Kens had would look REAL good!!!!

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will look fine in paint
...if you are up for a little more punishment clamp a wide fence on your router base using that to ride along your deck and rout yourself a ledge to put your contrasting strip/rubrail on.
-Billy

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Billy,
Are you serious or are you messing with me. If it is the former and you are talking about recessing the top of the sides how to you compensate for the changing angles on the sides?

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serious... i do that all the time for binding the edge of guitars etc.where the back or top is arched. you would run the base of the router on the edge (your topsides) and the fence note dog leg will rest on the deck edge keeping the depth true.
-Billy
here is a crappy illustration black blob = router red "L" is fence with dogleg silver = router bit

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Billy,
Thanks as always for taking the time to draw an illustration to clear things up for me. But, I'm afraid this one might be beyond me. There again you never know. It would mean I would have to buy new toys for my router and I could blame you for that.

(Disclaimer before I type the following. I am sober, I don't have a fever and I haven't suffered a recent head injury)

Pirate,
You are genius. (I know, I'm going to the ER to get checked out anyway )
Your idea of using different widths and colors of masking tape to get a visualization of how a paint stripe would look on the Yak's sheer was right on. I'm leaning towards a 1" overlap on the deck and sides. The green isn't bad either. I even set my rough cut patterns in place to see how things would look.

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My wife,mom,and cats think so too!!!

Thanks,glad it worked out.

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Here is a larger version..

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Yeah, if I had a pretty model posing with my little KidYak it would look that good too!!!

Steve,
I really admire you work. I have been following your no plan build and I just read your post about your homemade sander. Nice on both counts. I would like to do cut out hatches like you did in your picture on the two long pontoons, but they are one shot cuts and I don't trust myself that much with my jig saw. How did you do your's?

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I should a mentioned the above build is by a guy from Texas and here is the link..he has been designing and building boats for 50 yrs.
As far as cutting it out I would drill a series of holes with a bit no wider than a saber saw blade , and drill them in-line and long enough for the blade to stick in. I would use a fine tooth steel cutting blade. Also go along the area to be cut and tape it with masking tape that will prevent the saw from splintering the edge of the wood. Then line the opening from the underside making a recess lip, add some thin self stick foam to the recess and secure the cover with bungees.
http://texaspaddler.com/gallery/album43

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Chillin - Here is how I avoided showing my ugly stitched/uneven seams, very similar paint scheme to what you are suggesting. They were all filled with thickened epoxy, sanded and glassed over to look like smooth nice joints, but they were not. The paint ends right where the taped seams end, so it hides alot.


I think it looks great and people love it... I think I am going to build a kidyak for my kid next, but I have some time. He's only 4months old...