Read.

Start with this board, and ALL the links. That is prety much free, and totally mind boggling. this should take about a year. Next year you hit the libraries, and then the book stores to buy the classic texts on kayak building. To cut some time off of this, just get these four books: Nick Schade's book on stripbuilding kayaks, David Hazen's book on strip building canoes (and kayaks) Chris Kulczycki's book ( the kayak shop) on stitch and glue builidng, and George Putz's book on canvas covered boats.

Any one of these will get you started. Reading more than one will give you some additional ideas.

Paul G. Jacobson