Finally ready :)

Today was the day when i made my Solo Day completely finished.
Final adjusting and mounting the seat. Final weight check showed 12.53 kg (27.6 lbs)
Next step is to put it in a lake.

Final weight.

Seat mounted

Nice interior

Next stop - the lake

Outside ready

Outside ready for now. 3 layers of clearcoat. Maybe I will add extra coat later, but now I want to get the canoe out on the water. Tonight I will give the decks and gunnels an extra grinding and a finishing layer of clear coat.

Good enough

OK for now

Time for clear coat

Finally it is time for the clear coat. I will start with 3 layers on both in- and outside.

Ready for clear coat

Weight check. 12.22 kg (27lbs)

Inside and decks ready

Outside next

Securing inner and outer gunnel

As I have all these holes in the inner gunnel it is difficult to seal the upper edge of the hull with epoxy and glassfibre. This means that there will be a risk that the inner and outer laminate can separate if  I hit something hard at the gunnel. Solution is to glue hardwood dowels that connects the both gunnels.
The hole is sealed with a cedar plug to get a nice look.

A lot of holes drilled. First a 5 mm deep 8mm hole for the cedar plug.
Then continue with a 30mm deep 6mm hole for the hardwood dowel

Hole ready

Hole filled with glue and hardwood dowel inserted

Hardwood dowel fully inserted

Cedar plug in place

Glue dried

Plug trimmed and grinded

Cleats for the seat

Mounted the cleats for the seat today. Decided to make 4 small cleats instead of a horizontal bar that is the most common. Little more work, but I think it looks nice and probably a little less weight added.

Cleats ready to mount

After glueing them in place I added a layer of glassfibre and epoxy

Finished sanding - looks OK

Testing the seat. Perfect fit.