Melbourne (Oz) winter........
Too cold to paddle.. To cold to fiberglass... Don't feel like mowing the lawn......
The dogs have been walked....Hmm, what to do?
I haven't posted anything here for awhile, so I thought I'd take the Boat Bragging Board at its name and stick some photos up of my 3 (so far) JEM builds up.
Those who frequent Matt's JEM site might have seen these before.
The first one is the Cape Fear sit in, started in early 2008 and completed towards the end of that year, just in time for summer.
As with most first builds, it was a huge learning curve and I loved every minute of it
I've enjoyed many and varied adventures with the CF....some of which I've posted here earlier.
The next one was a Laker 14 built for a friend.
I had a ball building this. I'd made most of my rookie mistakes with the Cape Fear so this build went nice and smooth.
She's being enjoyed by her new owner....and his kids
Current build is another Laker 14 and is about 3/4 done.
I'll probably keep this one and thought I'd play around with the shape of the cockpit a bit by shortening the front decks and
squaring off the opening. I think Increasing the open space in the cockpit will make this a little ripper of a fishing kayak, with plenty of room and access for fishing gear etc.
Not least of all, room to adjust my sitting position to ease these poor ol' bones during the long wait for the fish to introduce themselves to me..
Thanks to Matt, his designs and the great blokes on the builders forum, I've rediscovered the joy and satisfaction of building kayaks....and using them.
Next projects:
A Paddle Board and a couple of Pirogues.......
Yes....it's an addiction.
Too cold to paddle.. To cold to fiberglass... Don't feel like mowing the lawn......
The dogs have been walked....Hmm, what to do?
I haven't posted anything here for awhile, so I thought I'd take the Boat Bragging Board at its name and stick some photos up of my 3 (so far) JEM builds up.
Those who frequent Matt's JEM site might have seen these before.
The first one is the Cape Fear sit in, started in early 2008 and completed towards the end of that year, just in time for summer.
As with most first builds, it was a huge learning curve and I loved every minute of it
I've enjoyed many and varied adventures with the CF....some of which I've posted here earlier.
The next one was a Laker 14 built for a friend.
I had a ball building this. I'd made most of my rookie mistakes with the Cape Fear so this build went nice and smooth.
She's being enjoyed by her new owner....and his kids
Current build is another Laker 14 and is about 3/4 done.
I'll probably keep this one and thought I'd play around with the shape of the cockpit a bit by shortening the front decks and
squaring off the opening. I think Increasing the open space in the cockpit will make this a little ripper of a fishing kayak, with plenty of room and access for fishing gear etc.
Not least of all, room to adjust my sitting position to ease these poor ol' bones during the long wait for the fish to introduce themselves to me..
Thanks to Matt, his designs and the great blokes on the builders forum, I've rediscovered the joy and satisfaction of building kayaks....and using them.
Next projects:
A Paddle Board and a couple of Pirogues.......
Yes....it's an addiction.
