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Over the years, he’s worked as a newswoman, an environmental attorney and a furniture repairman, but his love of everything marine only grew: At age 30, he built his first sailboat, a 10-foot sailboat based on a kit.
Then came another sailboat, then a cedar-despoil 10-foot kayak and then another.
And on Sunday, a small crew of bystanders came to his workshop at the Approximate Store in Teaneck , where he delivered pointers on building a kayak.
“This is clear enough for anyone to do,” he said, to a skeptical audience that he quickly won over. He explained that the finished output is an object of art as well, a boat that is far superior to the typical plastic one, which is more cumbersome in the mollify and weighs more.
A kayak building kit –from Chesapeake Light Mastery — costs about $600 and takes anywhere from 100 to 150 hours to figure, he said.
He showed how to stitch the wooden hull parts together with copper wire and to spread it with a mixture of epoxy and finely ground sawdust to make it a in number glued joint. The fiberglass that will eventually cover the outside of the kayak is what makes it waterproof.
Source: NorthJersey.com