It's a little slow in the shop over the Christmas holidays.

My wife works in the schools, so she gets school scheduled holidays, and the kids are obviously off. So I take a couple of days a week off, and some of the shop time is used for personal projects, such as the guitars for my daughters.

I did get the Baidarka finished. That frees up a lot of shop space! I also started getting the planking back on the century Chestnut, some of it is so banged up that it will have to be replaced. Big surprise there...

Wednesday I pulled in a Mad River kevlar canoe that needs some work done on it. That's the white canoe that you see beside the kayak.

Nice and shiny! It was very difficult to varnish the deck on this kayak. I couldn't remove all the fixtures and tie-downs as they had attachments inside that were unreachable. So I had to work around them and struggle with the tendency of the varnish to want to sag around them.