This allows the beauty of the wood to show through.
Wooden canoe kits australia. If you get the complete or wood and epoxy kit you will have another one to two boxes that arrive with your other building materials. Two comlete kit strips and strongback ready for shipment. Comlete kit parts ready for shipment. Our basic boat kits.
We keep all of our kits in stock. This box must be sent by common carrier and may cost between 150 and 250. These need less skill are quicker to build and can produce a just as strong a boat as traditions methods. The simplest kits use the stitch and glue method.
The canoe kit the kayak kit and the dinghy kit all use the stitch and glue methond of construction for simplicity. 3 4 plywood pre. One long wooden box fits most of the wood canvas and hardware. With the kits we do the hard part of cutting out the plywood for you you then stitch the pieces together using the supplied materials.
Our unique designs are available through vwbc certified agents as full or partial kits that can be shipped australia wide. These two smaller boxes can be sent via ups. The shipping for canoe kit materials consists of three different packages. Full kit a full kit will comprise all of the components required to construct the boat excluding paint and hardware.
The two most common wooden boat kits methods of construction are stitch and glue and strip planking. All the plans and the kits include detailed step by step instructions. Many people who purchase a basic kit are already handy in working with wood have the necessary tools and feel comfortable reading plans following instructions and the cost may also be important to them. How long does it take to get my wooden kayak kit.
Your wooden kit will arrive in a 2 x8 box. We are a small team of australian wooden boat builders based in kettering tasmania and are the sole agents for both chesapeake light craft usa wooden kit boats australia and new zealand as well as grain usa diy wooden surfboard kits australia and new zealand the australian importer and re seller of the world renowned bruynzeel bs1088. The pre bent stems are in a second box and the filler and paints in a third. Wood strip building produces a wood cored fiberglass boat.