Wood kayak plans

The Siskiwit Bay is all-around fast mid-sized British-style touring kayak. This solid boat suits a medium to heavy paddler looking for good initial stability and with increased flare above the waterline lots of secondary stability. As the water gets rougher, this kayak feels more stable. It's a fast design slightly more efficient than most British kayaks in its class. When built with a Layback Lounge, it's an easy roller.

Kayak plans designed for amateur builders. Suitable for cedar strip or skin-on-frame construction. Downloadable files or free shipping available.

Building a Cedar Strip Kayak: Sometimes I like to get on the water by myself and sometimes a canoe will suit me just fine. Other times the weather is not suitable for a canoe, too windy, too wavy or I just want to cruise the waterways a little more efficiently. A kayak can handl…

I’ve been thinking about this for years and figure I’d better get it out of my system before it drives me batty. I’ve convinced myself somehow, that’s its possible to build a kayak in 24 hours (I’m also convinced I can do it for $240 which is an different obsession altogether). To complicate matters, I want her to be beautiful, paddle well, and be well built; I want to proud of her and I want whoever paddles her, to feel the same pride. My hubris (yup damn pride) wants her to be built by

We have previously covered plans for plywood kayaks and PDFs to help you build your own boat. Today, we are going to highlight 15 free canoe plans you can build this week along with PDF building guides for each.

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I'm on a quest, a quest to build a FreeB kayak! The story is that while putting together a stitch and glue pygmy boats taiga canoe with my brother in Riverside, CA and doing research about the build, I stumbled upon the SOF style of kayaks and Kudzu boats! The taiga build has some down time while...

Make a canoe

This is a high performance touring kayak suitable for intermediate to skilled paddlers. The Fast Double really is fast. It consistently does very well in races such as the Blackburn Challenge.

Making a Wood Kayak: This is video series is documenting my process of converting the idea of a new kayak into a physical vessel and taking it out on to the water. I will be building my “Petrel Play” design. I hope you will find this series inspirational and maybe eve…