The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Ltd. For the traditional North American canoe The WCHA Mission: The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Ltd. (WCHA) is a non-profit membership association devoted to preserving, studying, building, restoring, and using wood, wood-canvas, cedar strip and birchbark canoes, and to disseminating information about canoeing heritage in North America. We invite ...

A discussion forum on the subject of kayak building. This bulletin board includes information about strip-built, stitch and glue, skin on frame and any other method for building kayaks.

Wood Strip Kayak Construction, paddles, glassing, extensive photographs ...

Doug's Boat Page has been a web resource for home boatbuilders since June, 1995.

A stitch and glue plywood canoe - that looks like a canoe!

Building a cedar-strip Freedom 17 canoe ...

Real Wooden Boats is everything about building and sources for boat building. I can help you find other builders, associations and plans. If I can do it you can too.

Simple Oars These plans are provided free for all to use and distribute and are not for sale. They were created as my thanks to Jacques Mertens of Bateau.com and all builders who take the time to post and help others in the Bateau forums. Download or view this image as an AdobeAcrobat PDF. Or right-click on the image (on a PC) and save the image to your computer for printing. Some Assembly ...

Don's Kayak Building Page You are the person to visit this page since February 14, 2000. The kayak I built is called the Mill Creek 15. I built it from plans I purchased from Chesapeake Light Craft. Mill Creek 15 Length: 15' 1/2 , Beam: 27 , Weight: 40 lbs. (including seat and hatches) Cockpit size is about 5ft long by 18 wide with a depth of 12 It is finished! A little overweight at 50+ lbs, ...

The North Woods Paddle by Rick Waters Many a paddler has stood in mystified silence watching a skilled team of North Woods travelers plying their seemingly delicate paddles across the waters of canoe country. Somehow it seems impossible, or at least improbable, that large, loaded traveling canoes could be propelled with so little apparent movement by the paddlers, with such fluid grace that ...

Welcome, Guest - Webring Home - Help/Support - Sign In Kayak Building Home Family & Home Home and Garden Woodworking About this Ring A path connecting kayak builders world wide. Sites include pages about people making there own kayaks, kayak building discussion groups and information of interest to people who want to build kayaks. Techniques discussed include strip-built, stitch-and-glue, ...

Building a Redwood Canoe -Strippers guide. Photo Album | Photo Album | Photo Album | Instructions Page | Tips and Troubleshooting | Related Links | Contact Me | Guestbook So, you want to build a timeless design and a lasting legacy. Everyone knows how to do something. Whether it's playing a guitar, carpentry, training your Labrador Retriever to retrieve...we've all acquired certain skills in our ...

QUICK-AND-DIRTY OARS By David Goodchild A few years ago I built a small, pram, sailing-dinghy just for fooling around. Last summer, I wanted to introduce my young grand-niece and grand-nephew (ages nine and six respectively) to small boat sailing. The dinghy however is just a tad under 8-feet overall, and the best oars for this boat are also 8 feet long. This of course means that they will not ...