CLC Chesapeake 17 Kayak January 4, 2015

Welcome to Geiger's Boat Shop,  I'm Brian Geiger and over the next four to five months I'm going to build a Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) Chesapeake 17 kayak, designed by John Harris.

I'll be building the boat from plans, it's available as a kit from CLC but I really want to build this one for plans. 

I built this CLC WoodDuck 12 kayak back in 2012 from a kit so now it's time to build a boat from plans.

Below is a picture of all the materials needed to make the kayak. The 4 X 8 sheets of 4 millimeter okoume which will be used to make the hull and deck. The 10' white pine board which will be ripped on the table saw to make the sheer clamps. The epoxy, wood flour, and fiberglass tape will be used to smooth and cover the hull seams. The fiberglass cloth will be used to cover and strengthen the deck and hull. The back band, closed cell foam and adjustable foot-braces will be use to trim out and complete the boat. The copper wire will hold the boat together while the epoxy sets up and the ring nails will hold the deck in place as the epoxy sets up.

All kinds of claps are needed during the construction. Below are a bunch of 4"  C-clamps.

Here are two dozen spring clamps.

When you build a kayak you also need some consumables. Plastic gloves to keep the epoxy from getting on your hands, containers in which to mix the epoxy, spreaders to spread the epoxy to saturate the fiberglass and assorted chip and foam brushes to apply epoxy or to apply varnish.  Sand paper in 80, 120, 160, and 220 grit will be needed to sand the boat numerous times. You will also want some 320 or 400 grit wet sand paper for sanding between coats of varnish when finishing the boat.