Hello guy's (and gals),
I have a King Fisher I built back in 2010 with the help of folks from this forum and I must say, the help was awesome and the boat turned out perfect.
I haven't been able to use it for over 2 years and I have been away and wasn't able to get it covered during the time I was gone, so, needless to say, it's in disrepair and needs some TLC to get'er back in shape, estectically that is. This is a beautiful boat and I am VERY PROUD of the way it turned out. Jason Cajun designed this boat and what a awesome job he did in the design - I just LOVE the way it rows and handles.
I build a little extra rocker in it for class 4-5 water; 10.5" front & 11.5" rear, w/2'6" flat in the middle for quick manouvering. I use 9' oars which makes it so much easier to move without all the hard work to get into those tight holes and hold it there against the current.
I used a 3/4" Plasscore Bottom with two layers of 6oz cloth with 12oz Kevlar between; two layers of 6oz cloth inside with Durabak Liner inside & out (inside has rubber chip for non-slip surface) - that stuff is really tuff and I haven't had puncture in over 5 years, a couple of little breaks in the coating but never anything with a "through hull puncture - nearly impossible). I used 3/8" (9-12mm) Okume (African Mahogony-marine grade, the expensive stuff - I didn't skimp) for the Hull and 4mm for decks.
I used double laminated 4mm Okume for the pedistals & hatch lids (hatch lids not laminated)
Many details to this Boat so if you want to know more, contact me here or on my Private E-mail
migeli.kali@unseen.is
I dont have any recent pic's and the boat is upside down right now so I would be hard to get any inside photos of it, but I can take exterior photo's if needed.
There are pic's of the Build in progression that were posted to the forum as I built it; you can search under "cyoa1" for my posts and see the pic's there also.
Here's some pic's of the finished build