The Strip-Built Sea Kayak & The New Kayak Shop Combo

The Strip-Built Sea Kayak

By Nick Schade. 202 pages, 1998. "Strip-building" - assembling a pile of thin wood strips into a functional hull - has been a popular canoe-building method for many years. Now boatbuilder Nick Schade, an engineer by training and a self-professed sea kayaking addict, has refined this time-tested method to build the more complex shapes of sea kayaks. The method is simple, forgiving, allows a liberal amount of design flexibility, and requires a minimum number of tools.

The New Kayak Shop

By Chris Kulczycki. 194 pages, 2001. This new edition of 1991's The Kayak Shop was written by CLC founder Chris Kulczycki. Provides a detailed discussion of plywood kayak design, construction, materials, tools, and fitting out.  Includes dozens of building tips, shortcuts, and illustrations of tricky steps, almost everything you wanted to know about building your own kayak.

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