Welcome to our Building a Kayak website. We won’t claim to have all the answers, but we have had some success and since we’ve already bored all our friends with the whole kayak odyssey, we figured it was time to branch out to a new audience.
So far, our Getting Started section can help answer a lot of questions you might have if you are just beginning to think about building your own kayak. If you are thinking of building a strip kayak then our section on building the Endeavour sea kayak has a pretty good gallery that covers our build from start to finish.

Over time we’ll fill in the site with what we know about kayak building, share what we learned through the process, and even offer some untested opinions on what we’d do next time. Of course since you’re here, you are probably looking to start building a kayak now and you probably don’t want to wait for us to get around to finishing this whole website. In that case you might want to check out a few of the kayak building books that Scott and I found really useful when we built our first kayak.