this build has been a great journey, i have enjoyed building my own and first kayak. i am now done with the frame and are ready to skin the kayak. I have found a german website where i have purchased tge skin extremetextile.de, i wanted to purchase it in the US, but the shipment...
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Starting the West greenland in West greenland
Finally starting My West greenland boat, i have been waiting for wood supply at the hardwood store and they finally got it last week. I have been converting alot of the measurements from imperial to metric, which i Hope wont affect too much for My build. Since the hardwood store do not have much...
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Rob’s 14′ Solo Canoe 66 Build, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
November 24th, 2018 While attending a Winter Camping Symposium at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. I saw for the first time in my life a skin on frame canoe. I was intrigued by how simple and beautiful it looked. Having made a lot of my own back country camping gear I knew...
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Thorsten‘s LPB Kayak & Greenland Paddle
Hi Folks, I’m Thorsten, 34 years old, living in Regensburg – Bavaria/Germany, building a LPB. After two months looking for straight wood that would properly bend for the ribs and coaming, I finally was lucky to get a whole tree of ash (1.000 kg = 2.200 lbs). The problem here was mostly timing. Usually,...
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Andreas’s F1 Build
Hello. This is Andreas from the San Francisco Bay area. I never thought I’d build a kayak, but here I am. This post is for people who may be curious about building a kayak but like me were not sure they could pull it off. I am (was?) a novice woodworker and am still...
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5/24/2019 INTRODUCTION. Hello, I’m Justin, I live in the middle of nowhere North Dakota (ND). Living in the middle of nowhere as you can imagine makes getting proper material a bit of a challenge as most of the lumber yards around me just have your typical building materials. If you know anything about North...
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Alan’s LPB and Greenland Paddle
4/15/19 So I am entered in the California River Quest and the Texas Water Safari this year and have decided that the LPB will be the perfect mix of speed and stability for those races. I’ve never paddled one – but I’ve decided anyway. I started off making a couple of paddles first. I...
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So I did all that work sharpening my antique miter saw only to realize that the jig I had made for the miter saw would not fit it. So I borrowed a power miter saw from my friend. I built the above jig so i could accurately cut diagonal cuts into my long stringers...
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Hello Everyone, I have been in the planning process for building an F1 for about 8 months now. I have limited financial resources at the time, and I do not have a woodworking shop, or a wealth of nice tools. I have been slowly collecting chisels, rasps, drills, bits, hand jig saws, clamps, planers,...
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Steve’s Nesting Pack Canoes, Middlebury, Vermont
Hi all – I am an amateur boat builder, with a dozen or so kayaks and canoes built over the years, mostly for friends and family. I started with a couple of stitch-and-glue kayaks based on Chesapeake Lightcraft designs. Those were fun boats, but I never was crazy about stitch-and-glue. So I...
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