> 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 Wow, Paul, you are not thinking about building all those, are you? I just get Nick's and Christ's book. These two work just fine for me. I built a skin boat without any plan -- just a hunch from someone's verbal dscription--something about 3arms length and 2fists + my waist. Of course, those were my student's day and a lot more courage....