Seats.

Finally settled on a seat design.

34mm square pine stock. Edges rounded over on the router table, and then a vee-groove routed into the pine.

6mm marine ply for the spreaders, with no stiffening since the rails will be screwed to the boat.

The the ply was chamfered with a plane, and then filleted to the rails with thickened epoxy.

Closed-cell foam will finish the surface off, and provide padding for my bum, once the seat's been varnished.

Paint, paint, paint

The Christmas Hiatus is past, the weather is slightly better. This means there's been time for two coats of marine undercoat , followed by one coat of light blue gloss. Just got to leave her now for it to harden off.

Paddles

The "sugar island" paddle blank, with the carving guides set using spray paint.

The blade is roughed down to 3/8" with a smoothing plane, then contoured using a spoke shave and finished off with a cabinet scraper and sandpaper on a long board.









The grip was "carved" using a belt sander.















And the finished item waiting for a glass-fibre reinforced tip and varnish.

Varnish

Inside of the hull now varnished.

The first varnish

Finally managed to get the first coat of varnish down on the inside of the hull.

The Costs

Supplier	Details	Category	Cost
Fyne Boat Kits	Instruction Manual and plans	Canoe	£ 53.50
Fyne Boat Kits	6kg Epoxy, glass mat, glass tape, colloidal silica, wood flour, brushes, undercoat, varnish, topcoat, mixing sticks	Canoe	£ 213.00
Force 4	Chandlery - A4 stainless steel M6 eyebolts, hatches, A4 stainless steel M4 socket head screws and nyloc nuts, A4 stainless steel bungee fixings	Canoe	£ 25.00
Boltemeup	A4 stainless steel screw M4 x 20	Canoe	£ 4.35
Boltemeup	A4 stainless M8 washers, nuts, beta pins	Trolley	£ 9.50
eBay	Golf trolley wheels 240mm	Trolley	£ 6.50
spares box	M8 A2 stainless threaded rod 1000mm	Trolley	£ -
spares box	Scrap ply for trolley	Trolley	£ -
Jewson	Piece of meranti for thwart	Canoe	£7.11
Jewson	2440x1220x6 BS1088 Marine Ply @16.50 plus delivery @12.5 + vat	Canoe	£ 90.28
Marsport	West System Epoxy 1.2kg pack	Canoe	£ 33.20
Axminster	West System Colloidal silica, pumps, syringes	Canoe	£ 33.48
Wickes	18x28 pine 10pk gunwales	Canoe	£ 8.40
Wickes	18x44 pine 2 off gunwales, rejected	Canoe	£ 4.10
Wickes	34x34 pine 1 off, seat rails	Canoe	£ 2.99
Wickes	34x34 pine 2 off, paddles handles	Paddle	£ 5.98
Wickes	18x144x2400, paddle blades	Paddle	£ 5.85
B&Q	Strip wood, paddle blades	Paddle	£ 4.28
B&Q	Varnish, paddles	Paddle	£ 5.98
Screwfix	Consumables - sanding sheets, masking tape, cable ties filling knife drill bits swarfega disposable gloves	Canoe	£ 31.69
B&Q	Sanding belts	Paddle	£ 7.68
Screwfix	Sanding belts	Canoe	£ 9.22
Toolbank	Gouges	Tools	£ 8.90
Screwfix	Spokeshaves	Tools	£ 28.51
B&Q	Jigsaw	Tools	£ 24.98
B&Q	Big cramp for paddle	Tools	£ 14.98
B&Q	Belt Sander	Tools	£ 19.98
Axminster	Cabinet Scraper	Tools	£ 4.83
Axminster	Marking gauge	Tools	£ 8.87
Axminster	Spring clamps	Tools	£ 7.96
Axminster	Curves (french, flexible)	Tools	£ 5.52
Axminster	Planes - set of 2 - block + smoothing	Tools	£ 28.61
Axminster	Big cramp for paddle	Tools	£ 10.00
	Grand Total		£725.23