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- Airfoil simulator - An airfoil simulator which may help some with rudder design. Requires Java.
(Added: 25-Apr-2001 Rating: 4.50 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Baidarka Builders Manual - A description of how to build a kayak using George Dyson's aluminum tubing method.
(Added: 1-Feb-1999 Rating: 7.75 Votes: 4) Rate It
- Baidarka Mailing List Archive - A searchable database of messages posted to the Baidarka Mailing List.
(Added: 24-Mar-1999 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Balsa Strip Canoe 11 1/2ft - 12lbs - Originally planned to be a "disposable boat" the balsa canoe was used regularly for 5 years then sold. This site gives some of the building details, scantlings etc.
Hope it is of some interest and use to the net boatbuilding community.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
(Added: 29-Aug-2005 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- BALYVAUGHAN WOODEN BOAT SCHOOL - The Wooden Boat School offers week-long courses in fine woodstrip construction, on the rugged coastline of the west of Ireland. Learn to cedarstrip and epoxy coat a canadian canoe, stitch and glue a beautiful sea kayak or build a wooden sailing boat.
(Added: 16-Apr-2003 Rating: 5.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Bob Boucher - Build Your Own Sea Kayak. In a Traditional West Greenland Style. Selling an instructional video.
(Added: 18-May-2001 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Building a Bering Straight Kayak - An article discussing the building of a Yup'ik style kayak with the hole through the bow.
(Added: 5-Mar-2002 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Building a Guillemot Kayak - Chronicle of the building of a Guillemot kayak based on plans from the "The Strip-built Sea Kayak" by Nick Schade
(Added: 5-Jan-2002 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 4) Rate It
- Building a Guillemot-L (18 footer) - In January of 2001, I embarked on what is sure to be an adventurous journey. I began to build a strip-built kayak. This site is a log of the process.
(Added: 26-Feb-2001 Rating: 9.06 Votes: 208) Rate It
- Building a wooden kayak - Murray Watt describes building an Expedition Single in the pages of NSW Sea Kayaker
(Added: 1-May-2000 Rating: 6.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Building Feathered Wooden Kayak Paddles - Twisted lamination and scarfed feather wood shafts. Solid glass and wood curved blades.
(Added: 1-May-2000 Rating: 8.25 Votes: 4) Rate It
- Building the Bluefoot Booby - We enjoy kayaking, but not the confining space, so here is my version and journal of a more comfortable wood strip ocean kayak. enjoy
(Added: 19-Jan-2002 Rating: 5.42 Votes: 12) Rate It
- Building the Greenland Kayak - Jim Coburn has a nice series of pages showing the steps in building a Greenland style skin-on-frame kayak.
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 9.33 Votes: 9) Rate It
- Building the North Bay - Bobby Curtis has a good set of pages about building a stitch and glue kayak.
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 5.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Building The North Star and Others - Photographic library of the building of Rob Macks' North Star with comments
(Added: 8-Feb-2007 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Byg-kajak.dk - A collection of information and links written in DANISH
(Added: 24-Nov-2004 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Canadian Canoe Museum - Devoted to the preservation on Canada's paddle powered history
(Added: 1-Feb-1999 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Canoe and pirogue forum - A paddling and kayak,canoe and pirogue boat building forum. We also are just a bunch of paddlers having a good time in the boats that we make.
(Added: 24-Jan-2003 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Composite Kayak Construction Workshop - Ray Jardine has a nice set of pictures of building a carbon fiber double kayak.
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 6.00 Votes: 9) Rate It
- Construcción de un kayak de madera - Construción de un kayak de mar con la técnica stich and glue de contrachapado de okoume y resina de epoxi
(Added: 7-Mar-2004 Rating: 9.50 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Construyendo un kayak de madera - Construccion de un kayak Guillemot de madera terciado y epoxi. Diario gráfico de todos los pasos. Remos y otros detalles.
(Added: 3-Sep-2002 Rating: 9.67 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Dan's 17' Guillemot Sea Kayak - Dan's 17' Guillemot Sea Kayak
(Added: 20-Mar-2007 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Derek's CedarStrip Site - CEDARSTRIP.NET - Guillemot Double, Building Journals
BearMountain, Endeavour, Hiawatha
(Added: 17-Dec-2001 Rating: 8.50 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Doug's North Star & Guillemot Construction Pages - Some details of building the North Star and a Guillemot Expedition in process.
(Added: 7-Jan-2002 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Ed Walshe's Kayak Page - A log of my building a Guillemot kayak
(Added: 5-Sep-2000 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 22) Rate It
- Emil Kellander's kayak building page - in Swedish
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 7.33 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Expedition Single - Building photos - Photo diary showing the main steps in the production of Guillemot Expedition Single Sea Kayak
(Added: 21-Apr-2004 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Folding Kayak Builders Manual - Plans and detailed instructions for building several folding Greenland kayaks.
(Added: 11-Apr-2004 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 13) Rate It
- Free Paddle Plans - Complete, detailed Professional plans for two paddles. I was selling them for $45, but now they are available for free download. Single Paddle and Double Paddle.
(Added: 30-Dec-2005 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Grants Kayaking Site - Building a WR180 including NZ suppliers, links and photos.
(Added: 21-Mar-2002 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Harpoon Heads - Maiking of Skin Kayak and other equipments.
(Added: 9-Mar-2008 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- How to Make a Spray Skirt - A description of how to make a neoprene spray skirt
(Added: 22-Mar-2002 Rating: 4.50 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Jack's Wood and Canvas Kayaks - Jack's Wood and Canvas Kayaks web page provides a wealth of information for those interested in building a skin on frame wood/canvas kayak. The site includes how-to instructions, material lists, step-by-step instructions, free plans, and purchased plans.
(Added: 5-Apr-2004 Rating: 8.46 Votes: 188) Rate It
- Kayak Builders of Southern California - Reviews of kayaks built from plans and kits.
(Added: 1-Feb-1999 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Kayak Building - Brief descriptions of various kayak building methods with links to more information
(Added: 17-Apr-2007 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Kayak Building FAQ - A brief description of some of the primary methods of building a kayak.
(Added: 1-Feb-1999 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Kayak Building Web Ring - A path to link together kayak builders on the web. Web pages describing kayak building projects
(Added: 8-Dec-1999 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Kayak Bytes - Kayak building blog for strip and skin boats.
(Added: 18-Aug-2006 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Krazy James Boat Books - bookseller of new, used, and out of print boat books. Save 25% on all new boat books
(Added: 30-Jun-2002 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- M. Silvius Greenland skin on frame - Greenland skin on frame built using Robert Moris's ,& HC Petersen's books and Chris Cuningham" article. Mostly Petersens.
(Added: 10-May-2002 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Making an Aleut Paddle - Pictures and description of making a traditional kayak paddle
(Added: 14-Mar-1999 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Matthew Bastian's Canvas Covered Kayak - Matthew Bastian built a canvas covered kayak based on some old Dutch plans
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Mystic Small Craft - Photos and construction of lightweight plywood sea kayaks and other small craft using seam-batten construction
(Added: 16-Apr-2004 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Pete's Kayak Konstruction Zone - Pete Ford has a nice series of pages about the construction of one of Rob Macks' Georgian Bay sea kayaks. Check out the movies.
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Philip & Brian's Kayak building page - First time builders of a Sea Kayak
(Added: 30-Jul-1999 Rating: 7.57 Votes: 7) Rate It
- Plywood Stitch and Glue Construction - A stitch and glue construction site.
(Added: 1-Jan-2005 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Richard Best's Kayak - Description of how I built a greenland kayak, with photos
(Added: 9-Nov-2003 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Ross Leidy's Kayak Building - Step-by-step photo journals of strip-built kayaks, canoes, paddles, and roof-rack cradles.
(Added: 17-Jun-2002 Rating: 9.14 Votes: 837) Rate It
- Sawdust to Sea - A year of epoxy, sandpaper and varnish. This site chronicles the construction of a CLC Chesepeake 17 with many custom features.
(Added: 3-Oct-2001 Rating: 8.67 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Scubascapie's Kayak - kayak building project
(Added: 14-May-2003 Rating: 9.67 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Seecom Project: Guide To Composites - Information about composite materials such as those used to build kayaks
(Added: 29-Sep-2003 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Shawn and Dan Baker's Chesapeake 17 building Journa - Shawn and Dan Baker build a pair of CLC Chesapeake plywood sea kayaks.
(Added: 1-May-2000 Rating: 7.40 Votes: 5) Rate It
- Shawn Baker's Guillemot 18 - Shawn Baker builds a stretched Guillemot with custom redwood/pine accent strips.
(Added: 1-May-2000 Rating: 8.25 Votes: 4) Rate It
- Shop Tips - Rob Macks of Laughing Loon Canoes and Kayaks makes wooden kayaks and has put together a page of strip-building shop tips.
(Added: 4-Feb-1999 Rating: 9.33 Votes: 3) Rate It
- Some info on skin kayaks - This is my personal page which includes two skin sea kayaks which I designed and built.
(Added: 9-Jun-2000 Rating: 7.40 Votes: 5) Rate It
- Strip Building Kayaks - Pictures and journals about building sea kayaks using the strip-built method
(Added: 3-Feb-1999 Rating: 9.40 Votes: 5) Rate It
- stripbuilding in Sweden (Added: 16-Mar-2001 Rating: 4.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- SWIFTWOOD - Building a trimaran sailing kayak. Based ona SailRig equiped CLC Patuxent 19.5 Modified to run with hydrofoils and a Batwing ketch sailplan.
(Added: 5-Mar-1999 Rating: 5.07 Votes: 27) Rate It
- Swiss Seakayak building project - Strip build and stich&glue technic used to build three kayaks. Special section for hydrodynamic and hydrostatic as well as a "Kayak for Kids" section. Located in Switzerland. Written in german.
(Added: 18-Feb-2006 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Ted's Kayak Building and Trip Photos - Includes commentary on construction techniques, strength of fabric lay-ups, and trip photos from the Pacific Northwest.
(Added: 14-Jul-2004 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Kayak House - West River 180 construction site
(Added: 28-Jul-2005 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Point Bennett Sea Kayak - Free plans and directions to build a high performance plywood sea kayak.
(Added: 3-Apr-2006 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Traditional Kayaks - This web site features photographs of a large and diverse collection of Inuit and Aleut kayak replicas that the author built over the last four years.
(Added: 11-Jan-2000 Rating: 9.85 Votes: 7) Rate It
- wooden sea kayaks & paddles - how to make or how to buy a wooden sea kayak
(Added: 6-Mar-2005 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
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