Observations and ruminations of an Olde Farte:
Nice lines on the boat. It looks to be light weight and of a strong frame. My sailing experience is trifling, and I quit rowing as soon as an outboard became available. Paddling is OK by me.
i had a case of uncured epoxy too. The whole inside of my first kayak was all a gooey mess. Turns out that epoxy is a TWO PART glue, and it works only if I added hardener. Anxiety syndrome had put my thinking box all atwitter, it seemed.
I’ve done a fair amount of camping in both canoes and kayaks. In many real life situations, I was landing without the benefit of a gently sloping beach of soft, forgiving sand. I always thought that small boats would be even funner if I could only have a few such beaches in a handy shirt pocket, and smilingly toss one out wherever I wanted to land. The rocks and logs that Mother Nature often provides can do turrible things to boat bottoms.
These events cause turribly disturbing feelings to boat builders. I was always glad to have a plywood hull wrapped around me when pointy rocks and rude logs were either suddenly popping up, or just beligerently standing there, right where I dearly wanted to land. Even with a bottom that was covered with fiberglass and epoxy, my boats have battle scarred bottoms from encounters with stuff in the water.
Where I’m going with this is that I hope the fabiic skin on your boat holds up. I hope that I am conveniently wrong when I predict that the fabric has two chances of surviving camping trips with two souls aboard - slim and none. Caution will become a second habit for landings and launchings. I wish you good fortune, and sincerely hope that I am wrong.
