Paint & Finish
12 h
Varnish schedule
Six coats of varnish, sanding between. Deck bright, hull painted.
Dust is the enemy. Wet the floor before each coat and stop opening the garage door.
Shearwater 17 · new build
LaunchedShearwater 17 in a one-car garage
by Example Logs
· boatbuildlog.com
An example log following a first-time builder through a stitch-and-glue kayak over seven months of weekends. Shows how much detail is worth recording.
This is an example log, not a real project.
It exists to show what a useful build log looks like — dated entries, tagged to a step,
with hours recorded and mistakes written down. The technique in it is illustrative;
don’t follow it as instruction, and check anything structural against your
designer’s drawings. Its hours are excluded from the site’s median figures.
10
Entries
86
Hours
217
Days elapsed
10
Photos
Jan 2025
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Planning & Research
Shop & Tooling
Hull Panels
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Fillets & Taping
Glassing & Epoxy
Deck & Coamings
Fairing & Sanding
Paint & Finish
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