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$700 OBO

Chesapeake Light Craft Cape Charles 17

Perception spray skirt, paddle, Yakima double kayak roof rack - all included

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Below - paddling in Quartermaster harbor at Dockton.
New deck mahogany plywood replaced and varnished with 7 coats of Epifanes high gloss and new hull paint just finished.
Perception spray skirt, double paddle included. There is a finished and painted compartment aft of the seat, you just need to cut a hatch in the deck if you want a cargo area back there.
 
All Bruynzeel BS1088 mahogany (Okoume) plywood, 3oz crowfott cloth epoxied on exterior of hull. Interior and deck all epoxy coated (West System). Very light - 35 lbs.
 
 
 
 
Below - Yakima dual kayak roof rack included.
 
See deck replacement process below.
 
 
July 5, 2007 - Renee built this 17' Chesapeake Light Craft design kayak in 1997. I decided to replace the deck since the old one had suffered from inattention over the past 10 years.
 
First I need to go up to Kent and visit Edensaw Woods. Very nice and helpful people there - they let me run around and salivate over all their wood - they have everything here,. like Walmart for exotic woods. Above is a nice selection of any kind of specialty plywood you can imagine in all thicknesses and grades, from Teak to Oak to - what I came for: Joubert BS1088 Okoume mahogany in 3mm. $54 for a 4x8 sheet.
30 minute drive back home and I'm ready to cut and glue. First I have to lay out the deck piece and scarf it together to form a deck that's just shy of 17' long and 26" wide.
Below - I cut the two panels together to form a nice straight butt-joint line.
Then I epoxy the two panels together with a backing plate.
I have to trim the edges of the butt block to clear the gunwales.
Using some ratchet straps to hold the deck down, Renee and I tie it up with string to hold the deck firmly to the hull while the epoxy sets up overnight.
Below - July 6, 2007 - this morning I removed the string and prepared to cut the cockpit hole, install the skirt coaming and the rub rails.
First, I used the router to trim the edges of the new deck flush with the sides of the hull.
I located the coaming and drew the line for the hole that needs cutting.
Then I cut the cockpit hole.
Glued on the coaming...
...and prepared the rub strips for installation by masking off the rest of the hull and deck to minimize the epoxy mess.
Above and below - rub strips glued on, epoxy coating the joints and the new coaming.
Next, I sand it all down and varnish the new deck.
July 10, 2007 - Second coat of varnish on the deck.
Below - July 19, 2007 - I sand the blue paint off the hull - down to the epoxy and fiberglass covered wood.
Below - I brush on two coats of Interlux Bristol Beige.
 
Next I roll the kayak over and sand down the deck for another coat of varnish.
Above - you can see the rough second coat, I sand it down with the DA loaded with 220 until all of the uneven, mottled varnish is flat. The next coat will be much smoother.
 
Below - this is the third coat of Epifanes, probably two more to go to get the finish I want.
 
 
Looking better than it used to.