{"id":4505,"date":"2016-11-07T19:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T03:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:35:37","slug":"building-the-chesapeake-16lt-kayak-part-5-the-bottom-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/building-the-chesapeake-16lt-kayak-part-5-the-bottom-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Chesapeake 16LT Kayak: Part 5 &#8211; The bottom side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>The kayak is still moving along! I\u2019ve been a bit busy enjoying the outdoors: mountain biking (yeah on two wheels!), camping, and rock climbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next part was to glass the interior middle section; there is some heavy duty fiberglass added to re-enforce the passenger area:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7805.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_7805.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7805\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This area had two coats applied, just like the front and back sections.<\/p>\n<p>Then the boat was flipped over:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7808.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_7808.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7808\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7807.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_7807.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7807\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I cut off all the spikes pretty closely with wire cutters and used a dremel to grind them down a bit. They said you could just sand them down..but I figured that would tear the paper. I then used a random orbital sander to sand it down with 80; including a bit of rounding over the edges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next up was taping the lines in prep for filling in the slight gap with some wood putty epoxy mix:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7809.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_7809.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7809\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_7811.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_7811.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 7811\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kayak is still moving along! I\u2019ve been a bit busy enjoying the outdoors: mountain biking (yeah on two wheels!), camping, and rock climbing.\u00a0 The next part was to glass the interior middle section; there&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/building-the-chesapeake-16lt-kayak-part-5-the-bottom-side\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4500,"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-4505","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\/11\/IMG_7805.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","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=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}