
Here's where I'm at after 4 or 5 hours worth of work. I have all the panels cut out and have the bottom halves sanded and ready to glue together. With the sides I need to get access to a work bench so I can clamp all four together and work on sanding the cut ends so they are all even. I may have made more work for myself but when I cut everything out I cut outside the line to make sure if I made a mistake cutting I wouldn't cut to far inside the line. I bought 1/4" Birch Plywood from Home Depot @ 19.xx a sheet. I haven't decided on fiberglass yet. My neighbor's father owns a fiberglass business and said he could get me as much resin, tape and cloth as I needed for nothing. I have my doubts about this being successful so I figured I would glass the whole pirogue in cloth and poly resin. I know the consensus is epoxy is better and more forgiving but I am trying to do this as inexpensive as possible. I know what everyone is saying to themselves... you get what you pay for and I'm aware of this. If this pirogue comes out decent and floats then I will rebuild another one using epoxy resin, in fact, I may skip doing a second pirogue and work on one of those laker 13s.

Disregard the poor shape my garage is in. Here is what I have done with 4 hours worth of work.


