We are in the final stages of this build! The client (my wife) wanted a two-tone paint job which is no big deal, done several of those. But then she told me she wanted a third color, a black stripe between the yellow and white. This could get interesting!

I was concerned about laying out the stripe and keeping it even. I debated over ways to do this and finally decided that I would try just doing it by eye. I have always had a good ‘eye’ for proportions and styling. Worst case was I pulled off the tape and tried something else.

I taped it off and stood back to check my work and was really impressed. There was one section right at the coaming that was slightly off but overall it looked great and that one section was an easy fix.

With the painting now done all that is left is deck rigging and adding the brass rub strips.

At the moment I have 42 hours and 59 minutes…. lets just call it 43 hours labor. The cost stands at 480 dollars. I still need the brass rub strips and the deck rigging. So it looks like I will be under 50 hours and  just a little over $500 in this one. I just put it on the scales and it weighs 33 lbs. You can’t buy a 33 lb, 17′ kayak for $500!

If you remember I predicted this one would weight 33 lbs when it was finished. Looks like I will miss that, I am going to add about another pound with all the rigging but that is still pretty close to what I was hoping for.