Building A Wood Strip Kayak

Some builders will take more time some will take less.

Building a wood strip kayak.

It is a great method for making beautiful lightweight small boats. Browse our complete line of kayak plans. Building wooden kayak frequently asked questions how long does it take to build a kayak kit. 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. Also called cedar strip wood strip strip planked etc. Wood strip building is easy enough for a beginner and yet is also the choice of professionals. 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.

Diy plans are available for this kayak at. 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. With this construction method it is not too difficult to build a boat that outperforms anything you can buy at a store. While a wood kayak may seem fragile strip built kayaks are actually incredibly strong and lightweight.

Wood strip building produces a wood cored fiberglass boat. 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. 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. Welcome to the redfish custom kayak canoe company specialists in designing and building wood sea kayaks canoes and cedar strip wood kayak kits.

Stitch and glue designs strip planked designs and hybrid designs that combine both kayak building techniques. The wood hull is then covered inside and out with transparent layers of fiberglass and epoxy. We like to say that 80 hours is a good target. I set the table on a pair a saw horses and attached it to them with pieces of scrap wood.

This allows the beauty of the wood to show through. We have sea kayaks surf kayaks performance kayaks and recreational kayaks. Our kit takes us about 50 hours to build but for first time builders it will take a bit longer. A short overview showing the process of building a cedar strip wooden kayak from start to finish.