Well today I took my wake-up coffee out onto my back verandah and there was the skeleton of a two person kayak sitting on my back deck!
It had been delivered by a guy I met at the local rubbish dump ... we had got into conversation about fitness and I told him that the one thing I need for next summer is a kayak. I cycle heaps ... good for the lower body ... add kyaking and I'll be getting upper body fitness too. In fact, I may start a new event for oldies — Pedals and Paddles.So he had this uncovered frame for a wood and canvas kayak.and donated it to my fitness cause.

As I said ... it's a two person craft. 15 feet long and quite broad in the beam. So it should be easy to paddle and quite stable for fishing from.

Of course, now I will have to get going and cover it. Some issues here because in 'my day' we always used duck canvass with a few coats of enamel over a filler coat. I understand that today other coverings , like dynel, are used and often coated with epoxy or such like. Actually I'm still tempted to stay with canvass and paint but I'm ready to be convinced if another method will keep the weight down.

I haven't mentioned it before but one of my current projects is to build a three wheeled pedal cycle for my old age. It will be a recliner (the pedaller lying rather than sitting) and will have two wheels at the front and one driving wheel at the back. Obviously this project will involve a bit of welding, a skill I don't have. So my first phase will be to learn to weld. Thin walled tube ... which is one of the hardest welding tasks. Going slow on this one, but I'll win in time!


Here's another adaptation for my flute ...