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More pics. of this build.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mo_kayaks/sets/72157632150588548/

So what about this................. Trolling motors are NOT titled or registered in the state of Missouri. (Marine/ watercraft sec. 8) So on my 17' canoe I had a trolling motor on I never bothered with it..never got mesed with in any of the ozark streams I used it on...

The west river 180 in "The New Kayak Shop" book would be a good boat for the mr340...As a mater a fact I have a gallon and a half of epoxy resin I need to use up (before it gets to old) and that was going to be my next build.....I am going to build the hull panes out of 1/8'' Baltic birch ply. and cedar strip the deck....

Well I don't care to much for short boats....longer track better....My Ozark stream fishing boat Is a stitch and glue that I did in cedar strips....The decks could be longer with bulkheads....it is a nice stable fast boat.... . So are you looking to buy a kit?

They are easy to build..what plan do you have in mind and are you near by?

Mon. is good....any time....

Jim the fabric came in today...could you come by tomorrow? It is always easier to unroll the material out with 2 people.... Oh....I built a little pantry cab. into the wall just as you come in from the garage...Enough space for the kids kayak to be stored above it....

Some of us lucky ones don't have to punch a time clock.. Besides never set my mental clock back to DLST..... The fabric is on it's way....

Here are some guys serious about their boat building.... http://www.facebook.com/PlywoodPirates This looks like fun..kayak surfing alongside a boat...http://www.facebook....&type=2

A view not seen yet.....

More progress pics....Jim (Stinger160) came over Mon. to do some lashing....with that help and the rest of the week here and their here is what it is shaping into.......

Well back at it....Getting all parts cut and ready for lashing.... The jig for cutting the stringers is lined up on one side of the centerline with a pc. of 1/4'' to rest the saw against. The bow and stern stems are 1/2'' baltic birch along with the one half frame...the rest of the frame are 3/8'' baltic birch....Stringers are cedar..same construction method as in Jeff Horton's book.. The complete build.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mo_kayaks/

Looking for a kayaking drysuit will trade for one of my skin-on-frame boats....

I found this on another forum... The guy was paddling this past monday.. Veteran's day.....over by Kaw Point..where the Kansas river meets the Mo..... http://www.rivermile...?num=1352757239 http://www.kshb.com/...noeing-on-river

Jim this is another kayak on the list for this winter...I need to use up that epoxy I have so the West river 180 which is an 18'X 22''...the plans are in one of my books "The new kayak shop" I will be using 1/8'' Baltic birch for the multi-chine hull

Jim this is going to be a SOF so if you are up for some lashing I'll let you know.... This is going to be a double chine hull...using wood strips to locate the first chine.... The frames cut out.... Next is to rip some cedar lumber 2x4's into stringers..glue them up into 17foot lengths....

I have seen people design canoes with it...hey have a forum and you can post you're design to be critiqued by the experienced ones...If you see a design someone posts just build or modify it....

Well here is the project...designed with Kayakfoundry "which is free".... The inspiration.. The program is probable the easiest of all the design software out their.... The fill size forms are printed out in full or half forms.....

It's about that time of year to hibernate inside the shop to start.... yet another kayak......Any one interested in building your self a boat?

This is ausume....they built 10 kayaks.... Eli Whitney Museum kids programs..... http://www.kudzupatch.com/blog/2012/10/11/668/

I checked out the Diadlo site... at 12' 6'' and 36'' wide... but 70lbs....they don't show a bottom pic. of the hull.....Nice though.. If I was going to design a SUP (stand up paddle board) it would have to be on the lines of this type kayak only about 1/2 the weight...

It is called lake of remembrance off Adams Dairy parkway. And a fish story to go along with it....A few days ago I headed out "cloudy to the north but little wind. By the time I got to the lake it was windy and white capping... a cold front moving in from the north...So I paddled up the lake and under the walking bridge in the photo..... followed some ducks up the creek and close to the old hand made bridge where the water gets clear I see a little bass then I see a lunker..thinking to my self she is over 15''....I mosey up a little further past the little bridge, to where the creek ends and turn around, I get out of my kayak to relieve myself ,.....then start fishing my way back ...I'm using my ultralight with a 1/32 oz. jig with a speckled lime green grub....I catch a 10 incher........then just past the bridge..where the creek starts to narrow with under water vegetation..... I cast up and onto the top of the green stuff...drag it a little bit..into the water and something hit it.....I hooked the big one I had just earlier paddled over... the bass didn't put up much of a fight ,turned out to be about 18'' long and it had sort of a deformed or bulging knot on both sides of the tail .....I released her...Se was an old fish.......Ausume when you can get a preview of a fish in a close quarters before you catch it....It happened to me at the mouth of the creek at prairie lee lake last year....floating in their and seeing a big bass and then later catching a 19''er on a grasshopper....

I found this to be interesting.... Quote: Ever wonder what would might happen if you boat flew off the roof of your car at 65mph? I've got some photos. I was traveling north on Interstate 89 in Vermont and the bungees holding my Guillemot L to the J-racks let go. I heard a WUMP and looked up and the boat was gone. In the rearview mirror I saw it lying in the thick grass to the right side of the road and pulled over on the shoulder. This was awful but that is the end of the bad news. Inspecting the boat it appeared that the bow/front part of the strap had let go. The J-racks being on the right side of the car had allowed the boat to be flung to the right and it must have landed stern first on the shoulder. This ripped a chunk of wood and fiberglass about 6" long from the stern hull just behind the skeg and about 2 feet in front of the point of the stem. The boat then skidded into the 12" grass about 20-30' off the roadway and coming to rest rightside up. In addition to the torn out chunk of stern there was some cracks in the glass along the base of the skeg box where it is joined to the hull and some cracks in the stern deck caused by the skeg box being shoved into the deck. I loaded the boat onto the car and secured it a bit better and headed on to Burlington, Vermont. I had an errand to run for a friend and just accross the street was an outfit called "Canoe Imports" in South Burlington, Vermont. They offered me a strip of bituminated aluminum that we used to hold the torn stern chunk into the boat. and we installed some bow and stern lines to hold the boat to the car better. I purchased some duct tape to cover some of the lesser scuffs and picked up my friend in Plattsburgh, NY and we headed off to Cranberry lake where we we had a great weekend, kayak camping, on one of New Yorks finer lakes.

This is a young lake off I-70 in Blue Springs.... Sneaking up in someones back yard.... Nothing but green...where's the water...and a bridge ahead... The bridge... I went under and turned around ..being it didn't go much farther..got out of the kayak and relieved myself.. got back in.... and back under the bridge....notice the shadow cast under the bridge breaks up the green reveling the under water.... Heading back out... Out of the green into the blue..... This bridge is part of the walking trail around the lake....under it in the distance is the lake dam which can be seen from I-70 just on the other side of the dam...