Chesapeake 17 Kayak - Marking stations and offsets for the bottom panels on the blanks - January 19, 2015

Just like the side panels I used the information on the plans to mark the stations one foot apart then marked the offset points for the bottom panels. Then I used the full size patterns on the plans to draw the bow and stern shapes.

If you look close you can see where I made a mistake on the bow. There is a second set of pin holes further inside the line I drew. I'm not worried about this because it will be on the inside of the boat and is so close to the edge it will be covered by a "fillet" and fiberglass tape. More about that later.

Above is the stern drawn on the blank. Note how I used multiple pin holes so I could easily draw curves that are part of the bottom panel shape. There were no curves like this present in the side panels.