Cheek plates

This next step, for me at least, is the most difficult step of building a kayak-attaching the deck to the hull. It requires working with sticky epoxy and uncooperative fiberglass. It requires patience and a steady hand, not the thing to do if you’re in a hurry and all coffee-ed up. The process is to…

Setting and attaching the cheek plates was a bit tricky. I needed to makes sure that both stayed perpendicular so each were even. It would be no good or fun to have one plate cockeyed and digging into said cheek.