# Chesapeake 16 Skin On Frame
**URL:** https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377
**Category:** Builder's Forum
**Created:** [February 26, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377 "2012-02-26T10:25:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/1 "2012-02-26T10:25:33Z")
I started out making a card board version to be able to loft the needed frames necessary for the build...
 
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/2 "2012-05-19T21:52:03Z")
I am showing the water mark to see if you guys think the bow is riding to high....I put a sting line on it but it doesn't take into account the leaning side to side as evident by the water scum-algae on the skin of the boAT...
  
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Thaler](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Daniel_Thaler)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/3 "2012-02-26T12:48:06Z")
Very Cool!
And then you can 'glass the cardboard and have 2 boats ;-)
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/4 "2012-02-29T03:09:20Z")
How I laid out the forms..First I rest a straight edge across the top of the side panels and measure up from the center of the bottom for it's location.. Then the sides.. Then the widths...
   
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/5 "2012-03-12T13:13:36Z")
The frames are nearly complete. In order to get an idea of the rocker in the hull I positioned the boat on my strong back and shimmed up each end until the center of the hull was the only part touching the strong back and measured the distance of the gap at each point where the frame brackets will be located.
   
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/6 "2012-03-12T22:24:22Z")
The stem pcs. and stringers cut to fit...
 
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/7 "2012-03-14T11:36:23Z")
  About ready to lash things together....
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### Author:  [@David\_Nolan](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/David_Nolan)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/8 "2012-03-14T17:38:07Z")
Cool, I watch with much interest. Not to build one like this, but to see how this all comes together! Keep the Pictures coming!
David
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### Author:  [@Ruedi\_Anneler](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Ruedi_Anneler)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/9 "2012-03-14T18:09:16Z")
Hello awoodman
I'm the owner and maintainer of a web-site dealing with "non fuel travel" of any kind. I'm on the lookout for articles for this web-site all the time.
As I like your builds and your photos as well, I'd like to publish them in the area "Instructions" or "Projects" in english and in german (will translate your text).
The site can be found here http://www.oeko-travel.org/en/home\_made/00\_index.php
In case of interest please write me a short e-mail to info@oeko-travel.org
Thank you, and keep going on with your very interesting work!
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/10 "2012-04-01T18:44:04Z")
Started lashing the frames.....
[http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford\_photos/Chesapeake%2016%20SOF%20Kayak/](http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r302/scrawford_photos/Chesapeake%2016%20SOF%20Kayak/)
  
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### Author:  [@Ralph\_Lambert](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Ralph_Lambert)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/11 "2012-04-02T11:16:46Z")
What canoe is in the background? It looks like there are scouts about, is this a scout project?
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/12 "2012-04-02T18:10:15Z")
The wife and I belong to an organization ,Indian Council Of Manny Nations, And they took over this event the Scouts drooped a few yrs. ago...SNAWS (Sharing Native America Ways)....Any way the canoe I built to raffle off all summer long up to our 50th annual summer pow wow.....I was demonstraiting the lashing part of building a kayak...
The plans for the canoe are in a book found here....
[http://www.kudzucraft.com/index.php](http://www.kudzucraft.com/index.php)
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/13 "2012-04-12T08:10:45Z")
Ready for skin...
  
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/14 "2012-04-12T14:34:16Z")
Got the skin on and ready to attach the coaming ring...
    
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/15 "2012-04-14T23:59:30Z")
More defining hull lines appear when the skin it tight...The type of coaming changes the look of the deck....
   
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### Author:  [@Ralph\_Lambert](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Ralph_Lambert)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/16 "2012-04-16T11:46:12Z")
What fabric did you end up using? Some use ballistic nylon, others will use different material. Is this your 1st sewing job? How did it go (I worry about trying it).
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/17 "2012-04-16T20:51:49Z")
Yea this was my first and it wasen't to bad...just have to jump in and do it. I used 8oz pollyester...
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/18 "2012-04-17T07:14:20Z")
The first phase of the paint job..had some yellow rustoleum tinted to a burnt orange...
   
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/19 "2012-04-17T23:33:06Z")
I had some left over 14'' scotch pinstripe tape but not enough..The only place that has it is an automotive paint store...so a trip to town tomorow...
Step 3 striping over the orange, preparing to airbrush over the orange with black......
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Crawford](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Steve_Crawford)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/chesapeake-16-skin-on-frame/39377/20 "2012-04-18T18:55:36Z")
Paint .....
   
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