Starting to think about the rigging. I didn't want big, heavy end pours. This hardwood dowel will take the bow handle. You can't see, but I've actually pre-drilled the dowel in a pillar drill beore angling the ends to fit it into the boat. The sides aren't yet drilled - they'll be drilled out with a small drill and opened up with a file to match the hole in the dowel later.

Why? I thought it might be hard to drill a neat, square hole across the kayak when it was all done. It would probably have been fine!

Note that the dowel is epoxy coated already - it's going to be hard to do hat when the deck's on!

Overall, a lot of time gets spent on cutting little bits like this to shape and epoxy coating them - two layers cos the first sinks in - before fitting them.