Thanks everyone.
Mick, one day I'd like to get together with you and go for a paddle -- and the boats don't need to be shiny, any old piece of junk that floats will be fine by me.
This boat is going to be used as though it were any other glass boat -- it will be my primary boat for paddling so it's going to get used a lot -- I know it's going to get scratched and that's OK. The final finish (System 3 two-part linear polyurathane) is incredibly durable and extremely tough. Varnish can't hold a candle to this stuff. All going well, I'll be starting another kayak building project in the next weeks and it will be finished with Linear Polyurathane as well.
The scenery is in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. The Gulf Islands are a group of islands between southern Vancouver Island and the BC mainland (around Vancouver). They're a kayakers paradise -- perhaps a little too easy access than I'd prefer but this time of the year one can generally have a campsite (or an entire small island) to themselves. The temperatures weren't what I'd call warm, but it wasn't cold -- many of us were wearing t-shirts most of the time during the day -- it cooled off a bit at night but it was still warm enough to wear a light sweater.
This past weekend we had our 2nd Annual WestCoastPaddler Spring Campout on Portland island (a very casual, no agenda, no schedules camping trip) and the twenty-five or so of us who showed up had the entire campsite to ourselves. Quite nice really. I took the previous photos while on our spring campout.
Here's another shot from last weekend -- as you can see, I wasn't the only one with a wood boat. My Coho is second from the left, and the Pygmy Double is mine as well:
Thanks again for all the kind words guys.
