Re: building wooden kayak costs?

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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:51:14 GMT, Sue Goddard wrote:

>> Your best bet might be to look at building a skin-on-frame boat. 

> I'll look into it; thanks.

A hearty second for the SOF idea! :-)

SOF boats are not only light and very beautiful, they're inexpensive 
to build, require fewer expensive tools, and are faster to build than 
most other types of construction. 

I second the recommendation of Chris Cunningham's SOF building book 
as well. I have both Cunningham's and Petersen's books (both are 
great), and I'm planning on building my next boat from the Cunningham 
book (except for the skinning technique, as I want something a bit 
more traditional). He also includes instructions for carving paddles, 
and even making a kid size SOF. 

One thing to consider with Cunningham's skinning technique...it's not 
quite "traditional", in that he suggests sewing the seam along one 
gunwale, instead of down the center of the deck. I prefer the more 
traditional approach here. 

If you do decide to try a SOF, you can get lots of information and 
help at the QajaqUSA site and forum:

http://www.qajaqusa.org/

This is also from that site...several building books:

http://www.qajaqusa.org/Equipment/equipment.htm

Whatever you decide to build, it'll be lots of fun! :-)

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Melissa

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