The New Kayak Shop: More Elegant Wooden Kayaks Anyone Can Build

by Chris Kulczycki

From coast to coast, home boatbuilders have turned to Chris Kulczycki for everything they needed to know about making their own kayaks from high-grade marine plywood and epoxy. In The Kayak Shop, a long-time popular standard, Kulczycki provided explicit directions and plans for building three sea kayaks: a high-performance single, an expedition single, and a touring double. The New Kayak Shop details three new Kulczycki designs that are more elegant and even more suitable for today’s paddlers. The building instructions are also updated, with new sections on paint and varnish, seat construction, power tools, computer programs for amateur designers, and tips on building multi-chine and round-bottom boats. The New Kayak Shop offers the best, most refined designs and building methods in a single, accessible volume.

194 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2000

Reviews

[Joel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Along with plans from the company Kris used to own, I have built two kayaks from this book. It is well done and detailed. I did not have any problems that the book did not cover.

[Liam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Building one of these has been on my list for a few years. The plans in the book are a bit small but should be possible to work from them alone.