Artur’s boat on the shore of lake Saadjärv. No paint, just okume. Seems to work fine, its hard stuff.
Kvark is a homemade plywood boat to cross the Atlantic in 2018-2019
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- Softwood and hardwood
- Steam-bending wood
- Tools we use
- Working with AISI 316 (high grade stainless steel)
- Working with polycarbonate (windows)
- Plywood (article 1)
- Epoxy (article 1)
- Glassing
- Fastenings
- Lead, smelting and casting
- Building space
- Sanding
- Work methods
- Eesti keeles
I also use Okume marine playwood, its surface is actually britty soft. It definitely has to be protected by some kind of harder layer such as epo.