Paddling to the San lorenzo island in the new kayak

After some exhausting hours of paddling, I finally reach the island. Taking advantage of having taken my very old  35mm analog camera I take some photos with an expired roll of slide film.Yes ... I love analog photography.

This kayak is very easy to paddle and is very stable. It keeps the journey well, it feels very safe in his way on  the sea, is truly an ocean kayak, and has plenty of storage space.

Building a new Kayak

While the ananda rests a while waiting for improvements I decided to channel the rest of  my energy building a new kayak. This kayak at some point I also think of turning it into a trimaran. After you have tried and navigated one it is very difficult to leave it.
This is a 17 foot long kayak made according to the plans acquired at  Chesapeake Light Craft  . For its construction I used 4mm thick plywood cover with fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin.

Repair Time

The Ananda waiting for some renovations and necessary repairs, the first of which is to fix the bow that has some cracks and cracks resulting from a collision with a piece of trunk in one of its navigations, after this, the rudder blade is what next to modify, for this I think use a new design more effective that would replace the old, which incidentally was adapted from a Hobie cat. Of course a hull painting is also included, but the most important thing is to reduce weight, for which we are going to remove some wood that was put in the structure to reinforce the structure of the hull, and make the crosspieces or Amas with aluminum tube instead of wood.

Change of color to the hull

For quite some time I had the Ananda painted blue, one day I decided to opt for a lighter color, the color chosen was beige or cream white. The rest of the main hull remained black. In addition to this I added a new plastic cover to the lid of the cockpit to prevent water from getting inside the kayak. Splashing and spraying water in a trimaran kayak with the hull  flat and narrow is normal and it is always inevitable that some water enters the interior.

Boat launch

After doing some repairs and maintenance to the painting of the small trimaran among other things, and put a new net between the vaka (central hull) and the outriggers (floats) which serves to put things such as an oar or an  waterproof bag and that do not fall in the water and in the last case sustain me.

I also ordered to make a new jib in Omega sails which worked great.