Building A Wood Strip Kayak

While a wood kayak may seem fragile strip built kayaks are actually incredibly strong and lightweight.

Building a wood strip kayak.

Some builders will take more time some will take less. Our company is designed to furnish you with a finished wood kayak or if you would like to try your hand at building your own wood kayak we can supply all of the necessary plans materials kits and if needed the personal instruction to successfully do so. Also called cedar strip wood strip strip planked etc. This allows the beauty of the wood to show through.

Wood strip building produces a wood cored fiberglass boat. Browse our complete line of kayak plans. The wood hull is then covered inside and out with transparent layers of fiberglass and epoxy. Stitch and glue designs strip planked designs and hybrid designs that combine both kayak building techniques.

We like to say that 80 hours is a good target. It is a great method for making beautiful lightweight small boats. You need a platform or long table on which to build your kayak. We have 54 wooden kayak designs that you can build from our plans.

We have sea kayaks surf kayaks performance kayaks and recreational kayaks. Building a wood strip kayak 1 introduction to the kayak building series 2 cutting kayak forms from patterns 3 epoxy primer 4 making the stems 5 building the strongback 6 mounting the forms 7 the sheer clamp 8 aligning the forms 9 the first strips 10 stripped half way 11 stapleless construction 12 making the bulkheads. By building your own boat you are in full control of everything from the seat pads to the design of the wood strips. Our kit takes us about 50 hours to build but for first time builders it will take a bit longer.

A boat is created by gluing wood strips edge to edge over hull forms called stations. I built one 12 in wide by 16 ft long from 1 sheet of 3 4 particle board leaving only a small piece of scrap. Wood strip building is easy enough for a beginner and yet is also the choice of professionals. Plans from bear mountain boats.

A short overview showing the process of building a cedar strip wooden kayak from start to finish. Strip building involves bending thin 1 4 inch 6 mm or less pieces of wood around temporary forms edge gluing them together and then fiberglassing inside and out. I set the table on a pair a saw horses and attached it to them with pieces of scrap wood. Welcome to the redfish custom kayak canoe company specialists in designing and building wood sea kayaks canoes and cedar strip wood kayak kits.