Fredrick and his mates bought the IDEA21 plans about 4 years ago; as I normally do when I see a new order, the first thing I did was to check in which corner of the world I was going to send the plans; in this case it was a really […]
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Yılmaz Çolak , a turkish client who purchased the plans of Cripy 660 cabin, devoted an entire youtube channel to the building project. There is a good quantity of videos covering all the stages of the buiding; the boat is currently completed and ready to be launched; as it’s normal […]
Crispy 660 cabin, a youtube channel about her !
It has been a looooooong time since the last time I published something new in the website , but we have a fresh array of contents ready to be published, so let’s start ! The Barbamasu have launched their Hirundo 750!!! On a warm and sunny September day, “Macallè,” the […]
New Hirundo 750 launched !
Hi everybody, here are several pictures and clips of a just launched Crispy 520 ; the boat is a “plastic” version of the boat, made by CNC cut high thickness plastic sheets welded together , but the hull is 99% identical to the one drawn in the plans to be […]
Crispy 520 on the water
In this post I will suggest you a boatyard procedure to level your boat and keep her leveled for the whole building process. Why am I writing this post ? Because in complex boat construction (apart from kayak and small dinghies) your only reference lines on board to place correctly […]
Keeping the boat straight
in this part we will deal with big areas lamination works , this is going to be a quite long chapter ! In modern wood & epoxy constructions there is sometimes the need to laminate a whole big area with glass fabric , normally hull or deck/cockpit surfaces or both; […]
Unveiling the esoteric secrets of epoxy resin works. /PART 5
This is the fourth part of the tips and tricks selection to manage easily your epoxy works ; in this chapter we will focus on glass taping works glass fabric strengthening works : here we will talk about all that glass fabric works which aims to strengthen the structural joints, […]
Unveiling the esoteric secrets of epoxy resin works. /PART 4
This is the third part of the tips and tricks selection to manage easily your epoxy works , here we will talk about using thickened resin to make bondings and the so called “liquid joinery” that is to say make thickened resin radiuses to strengthen joints Bonding with thickened resin […]
Unveiling the esoteric secrets of epoxy resin works. /PART 3
This is the second part of the tips and tricks selection to manage easily your epoxy works ; here we will focus on how to handle the resin properly , which is quite a nightmare when start to work with resin for a medium sized project resin is messy, but […]
Unveiling the esoteric secrets of epoxy resin works. /PART 2
One of the most common fear of newbie boatbuilders involved in our projects is related to the use of epoxy resins and glass fabrics. Since this is a very important part of our projects to achieve a strong, light and long lasting boat, we will give some tick and trips […]
Unveiling the esoteric secrets of epoxy resin works. /PART 1
Good news from Brazil : the first Hirundo 750 has been launched !As you can see form the pictures, this boat pushed the project in the direction of a small but capable cruiser, with a sheltered cockpit, transom beach platform , very rational and roomy interiors , keeping the boat […]
Hirundo 750 launched !
Hi everybody !!! We have currently a lot of boats in the building stage all around the world ; here are the links if you want to follow the progresses of some of them on the social media, and several pictures —Idea21 built in Sweden : https://www.instagram.com/mycklekajakvarv/?hl=it —Hirundo 750 built […]