Canoeing and Kayaking Building
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Baker Brothers Boats Seakayak - Amateur boatbuilder's working journals with pictures.
Building a Redwood Canoe - Strippers Guide - Details photographs, instructions, tips and troubleshooting for constructing a redwood canoe. Also includes related links.
The Canoe Paddle Page - Information on designing and creating wooden canoe paddles. Also offers a photo gallery of paddles and relevant books and articles.
Chris' Canoe Project: Building a Freedom 17 Canoe - Chronicles the construction of a cedar-strip canoe with detailed comments and pictures. Includes boatbuilding links.
Dave's Kayak Building - Details of building a Chesapeake LT17, a 17 foot sea kayak.
Don's Kayak Building - Details of personally building a Mill Creek 15 kayak.
Doug's Boat Page - All about building kayaks and native boat technology. Includes an introduction to boatbuilding, freeware and shareware boatbuilding software, free boat plans, pictures, and related resources.
Ferwerda Wood and Canvas Canoes - Includes photos and build records of several canoes, particularly the Hiawatha model built on an original Thompson Brothers form. Also features weight comparison for wood and canvas construction versus modern materials, tips for building a seat with a mast ring, and photos of a canoe rigged up for sailing.
Graham Skelly's Homepage - Contains links to canoe building and canoeing of wilderness rivers in Canada and the United States.
Grant's Stitch and Glue Canoe - How to build an ultra light stitch and glue plywood canoe that really looks like a canoe.
How to Build a Waveski - Step by step guide with pictures on how to build and fix a waveski.
Kayak Building WebRing - Connects sites related to building wooden kayaks.
Kayak Building Workshop - Focuses on building sea kayak using traditional Inuit methods in Nunavut, Canada.
Ken's Temporary Kayak Pages - Information on how building Euro and Greenland paddles, wood strip kayak construction, glassing, and extensive photographs.
Kent's Kayaks - Provides information on kayak building, pictures of design ideas, resources for materials, and some general information on paddling.
La Mina - Steps and photos of building a canoe with classic shapes, but using modern, readily available, and cheap materials.
PakYak Prototype - Online plans, pictures, and discussion of Jim Heter's custom-designed folding kayak.
Quick-N-Dirty Oars - Instructions for making oars by David Goodchild.
Real Wooden Boats - Provides tips on building a cedar strip canoe, photos of construction of a Cosine Wherry, and links to other boat building sites.
Ross Leidy's Kayak Building - Personal summaries of building kayaks, canoes, paddles, and cradles. Includes a how-to section with in-depth discussions of a few building and outfitting techniques, including deck fittings, a fiberglass seat and the use of underdeck bungees to secure hatch covers.
Scubascapie's Kayak Project - Provides photos and description of building a wooden kayak. Also includes related links.
Sea Spirit Kayaks - A summary of kayak building experiences: North Bay I, North Bay II, Sea Spirit I, and Sea Spirit II.
Simple Oars - Free oar plans with photos.
Surfing Outrigger Canoe Project - Summary of building an 18 foot surf canoe. Includes project log, materials list, and summary of the construction steps.
Wooden Canoe - 14' stitch-and-glue open kayak, built from (free) bateau.com plans, of two sheets of plywood. Construction photos. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.