Welcome to our kayak building 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 construction thing, 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 starting 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.

I’m also getting the itch to start on that next project. The kids are getting bigger and there are times when we really need another vessel on our canoe trips. I’m looking for a kayak that would be big enough for a 4 day trip, fairly stable for fishing but not too big for just hanging around at the cottage. The Wood Duck 14′ from Chesapeake Light Craft is looking like a good option, but if you think there is a better choice, let me know.