Kayak Six - Lily's First Kayak

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Kayak Six, Lily's First Kayak

A friend of my grandson Tucker's parents ask if I could build a boat for his little girl Lily like Tucker's. They're good family friends, and I agreed to build it for the materials cost.

I'm making a Yost Sea Flea, exactly the same as Tucker's, but hopefully with fewer mistakes this time.

Kayak Six Build Log

This is the build log for a Yost Sea Flea 11' SOF I'm building for my grandson Tucker's friend Lily.

02/Oct/11

I've created an excell spreadsheet of all the form and coaming offsets, used it to make a CAD drawing, and produced a size 'E' pdf file,

Tucker_1 Forms pdf (8.86 kB), or E drawing of forms (5.17 kB) with all the forms to scale. I had this printed at my local print shop, $5, well worth it rather than doing it the hard way. Feel free to use this if you're building one of these.

I considered several fabrics, but in the end chose to go with 8 oz. polyester from KudzuCraft, mainly due to the excellent how-to videos on this site, and reading a lot of pros and cons about fabrics on the Kayak Forum. This is my second SOF.