Life is busy and my skills are limited so in order to finish the kayak off before the whales are travelling north once again I've decided to contract a specialist kayak maker to complete all of the many detailed and more difficult aspects of this kayak - the carbon fibre cockpit coaming, the flush-mounted hatches, installing the retractable skeg / rudder system, installing the bulkheads, bonding the hull and deck together ... and on the list goes.
But before sending the kayak out the door a friend (thanks Tony) and I have been sanding and re-coating the surfaces multiple times this week to achieve a good finish.
This was the kayak as of yesterday morning with the deck resting on the hull (not yet bonded together). It's great that the kayak will be completed by a skilled set of hands and slipped in the water within a few weeks, I hope.
