{"id":4492,"date":"2016-10-17T20:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:35:37","slug":"building-the-chesapeake-16lt-kayak-part-4-leveling-and-gluing-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/building-the-chesapeake-16lt-kayak-part-4-leveling-and-gluing-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Chesapeake 16LT Kayak: Part 4 &#8211; Leveling and Gluing Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>The kayak is starting to look like a real boat! First you have to level it, propped up on some sticks\/sawhorses:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7726.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_77261.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7726\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then install the bulkheads:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7727.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_7727.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7727\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And finally, start gluing it together with some epoxy\/wood filler mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7729.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_7729.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7729\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Things I\u2019m learning as I go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I should have put the stitch holes a little closer together; this would have allowed me to use less filler; a smaller filler line (closer to \u00be\u201d wide instead of bigger than 1\u201d) would weigh less.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Using tape to create smooth lines is pretty nice to do. The directions recommend this\u2026but I practiced with and without it a bit. The front and rear hull areas are for storage, and won\u2019t be seen regularly by me, so I don\u2019t mind.<\/li>\n<li>The top coat of \u2018unthinned\u2019 epoxy will run down to the center. It is important to clean it up a bit afterwards\u2026and you can keep doing it for a bit of time with the slow cure epoxy and still have it look good. I didn\u2019t do this on one side and it is rather thick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the middle section! It is more important, and will have some fiberglass cloth over it for additional reenforcement of the cockpit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kayak is starting to look like a real boat! First you have to level it, propped up on some sticks\/sawhorses: \u00a0 Then install the bulkheads: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And finally, start gluing it together with&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/building-the-chesapeake-16lt-kayak-part-4-leveling-and-gluing-together\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[54,98,52],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-woodworking","tag-chesapeake","tag-chesapeake-16lt-kayak","tag-kayak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_77261.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}