This is an overview video of my Night Heron sea kayak building project which I did over the summer 2018. The form of the kayak is Night Heron designed by Nick Schade: www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guil...
What a beautiful work of craftsmanship! As a prior owner of cedar strip craft (a late 1940s cedar strip lake boat) in the Lake Region of norther Minnesota, USA, North America, I not only love the craft themselves, but the relationship with the structure and spirit of the craft, and that of the water, the lakes, streams, and later the tidewater region of the eastern USA. The making of wood objects/entities is like deep meditation, or at least a highly Mindful state. And, it seems I also saw this in your video. So many thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge, and may you have many years of enjoyment with your craft!
Oho Emilia! :D Olen vuosien mittaan silloin tällöin yrittänyt etsiä teitä netistä, näköjään löysit ensin! 😋Jos kiinnostaa pikaiset kuulumiset niin voi ottaa yhteyytä: etunimi.sukunimi at gmail.com
Beautiful. 550 hours! I knew there was a good reason I haven't attempted this yet. how did the top connect to the bottom? I thought you might make your own paddle too!
I recommend not to be afraid of it and just start! ;) This is my first boat I have built in my life. When I put the lower and upper part top of each other there was like 30mm mismatch. I was a bit worried but eventually it was possible to just tape it together and get perfect match before the first strip of fibre and epoxy was applied to the inner seam.
because it wasn't in one piece - he built both halves at the same time on the mold, but the center line wasn't glued while putting the strips on and gluing them. He then separated the two halves off mold for fiber glassing individually. Once both halves were glassed, he joined them by taping the two halves together, and glassing the inside to hold the seam together - and then glassed the seam on the outside to finish the seam.
I see from your other video's that you have a sharp mind to go with your true excellence in craftsmanship. Very nice(unexpectedly high quality) build. Click on my green icon you might appreciate my 23rd build(outrageous materials& cool build). Fighting failing hips, but still hope to finish. Again masterful work Allar Saviauk.
Great project! Can I ask how you've found the flush hatch arrangement - are they watertight when rolling etc? The plan I'm thinking of building uses rather ugly commercial hatches that spoil the lines - the Heron design is much more attractive!
Hi! I didn't manage to get the hatches completely watertight like this. I think if I would build a sea kayak for serious waves and rolls I would build in those commercial rubber hatches. They don't look great but they are working for sure.
@@SN2011fe Many thanks for the feedback! The build is for serious use so unless I can find a reliable wooden design I guess I should follow the plan and use the commercial option. Leaky hatches on an expedition would be no fun at all...
Hi Alar, beautiful build! I'm currently building the Petrel design and I'm looking for a seat. Your's does look very nice. Could you share where you got it from? Greetings from Germany!
Hi! I also built this kayak in Germany. I got everything from Bergerboote. I checked the seats they have currently there but seems like the exact one I used is not there. Maybe you can ask them: www.bergerboote.de/shop/Sitze-&-R%C3%BCckenb%C3%A4nder-c2222002
@@SN2011fe Thank you for your reply, I'll get in touch with them. Btw your video was one of the reasons why I decided to build my kayak, so I'll send you pictures of the finished kayak! :)
@@SN2011fe @Allar Saviauk Sorry for the late reply, but things got in the way and I just now finished my kayak! I tried to send you a link of my onedrive folder where I uploaded some pictures, but it seems RU-vid doesn't show comments that contain links. So here's a youtube video containing the pictures :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xd7HnIEOqHE.html&ab_channel=ElTabulatore Thanks again for the inspiration!
@@eltabulatore3125 Wow, very nice boat! Congratulations! :) You took the extra effort to lower the cockpit area as well. If my video helped you to get inspiration then the video was already worth it! 🙂Wish you great paddles!
Hi Adrian, I bought a kit for 1700e where the strip wood, glass fibre and epoxy was included. However, I needed to buy more epoxy in the end. Small things like sanding paper, brushes, tape, foam, extra hard wood for the stems and coaming etc. just add up. In fact I had to buy most of the tools as well so in the end the project was 5400e for me.
