It takes just a few hours work a day to complete a dinghy or canoe in 1 to 5 weeks with our diy plans kits or workshop courses.
Build a wooden canoe kit. Be on the water in a few weeks after receiving your plans or kit. The two most common wooden boat kits methods of construction are stitch and glue and strip planking. The simplest kits use the stitch and glue method. Our standard boat plans are on 24 x 36 paper.
Wooden kayak kits building information all of our wood kayaks have been designed from the outset to be simple to build without any kayak building experience or any building experience at all. The wooden hull by itself is weak but the two layers of fiberglass make the canoe extremely strong lightweight and waterproof. Canoe kit this kit contains all the pre cut materials required to build the canoe. Choose your kit from the boats listed below.
Parts that fit within those dimensions are shown full size. Kits include all plywood necessary to build your boat. The basic idea behind a cedar strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter s glue and then cover the hull with fiber glass inside and out. Build your own boat for this season.
Kits can be found linked at the bottom of each boat plan on the website. Included are pre cut and shaped white cedar ribs half ribs and planking spruce rails beveled and rabbeted as needed pre bent stems pre finished caned seats a clinching iron brass tacks bronze bolts and stem bands canvas canvas filler varnish and your choice of marine finish paint. All of them come with a materials list full step by step instructions and advice on plywood types wood and epoxy. Thousands of builders have assembled chesapeake light craft boats from scratch with these plans.
If you do not see a kit listed for a particular boat please e mail us for a custom quote. Our plywood kits are pre cut on our cnc machine from either 1088 okoume marine plywood or 6566 meranti. You might already have a stash of marine grade plywood and epoxy or it might just be your preference to build a whole boat from the keel up. We have developed written and video instructions to be used in combination with each other to help you build your own wooden kayak kit.