Kayaks You Can Build: An Illustrated Guide to Plywood Construction

by Ted Moores, Greg Rossel

The definitive handbook for kayak builders. Kayaks are growing in popularity as a fun, low-impact way to explore the wilderness or paddle on local waters. Combining easy-to-follow instructions with 472 color photographs, Kayaks You Can Build takes the reader, step-by-step, through the entire construction cycle of building a plywood kayak. This simple construction process demands neither special skills nor a woodworking shop. This book This book includes day-to-day building journals for the three most popular kayak kits. A typical stitch and glue kayak kit contains pre-cut plywood planks, epoxy and hardware. Drawing on more than thirty years of boatbuilding and teaching experience, Kayaks You Can Build enables the first-time builder to assemble a kayak with truly professional results.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 19, 2004

Reviews

[Smellsofbikes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Covers a lot of material on glassed-plywood construction. There's not a lot of design: it's intended primarily for building kits, but they spend a lot of time talking about how you'd modify a kit to make it look and act the way you want. They've an enormous number of great work tips in sidebars.