Back in the 1980’s I was a teenager with a passion for the water and a dream of building my own boat. Any boat probably would have done as long as it was made out of wood, but a cedar strip canoe would be ideal. Now I had some reasonable woodworking skills but for the [...]

Kayaks You Can Build: An Illustrated Guide to Plywood Construction by Ted Moores & Greg Rossel is the second book you should buy if you are thinking about building a plywood kayak.

This book is split into 6 chapters but I would argue that it is really 3 broad sections. The first couple of chapters cover [...]

The New Kayak Shop by Chris Kulczycki is a standard resource for anyone who is thinking about building a stitch-and-glue plywood kayak. Chris is the founder of Chesapeake Light Craft and The New Kayak Shop is the updated version of his original The Kayak Shop.

This book covers the full sequence of building a plywood stitch-and-glue kayak [...]