When it comes time to pick the epoxy to cover your beautiful hand built kayak with, a common question that is well worth asking is which epoxy holds up best? Now I’ve only personally used West Systems epoxy and that has consistently been with their 207 hardener. I have also consistently used Interlux Traditional Spar Varnish [...]

OK, I know you might not have even had a chance to build your first kayak yet and the last thing you probably want to think about is ever having to repair it. But, for some of us the time does come when we need to strip off some old fibreglass. I’ve personally had to [...]

One of our goals here at Building a Kayak is to not just spout out our own ideas, but also to help you find links to useful resources elsewhere on the web. So with that in mind, I thought this teleseminar from Glen-L Marine might be useful to others. Glen-L has a huge repository of [...]