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Does double duty as an inspiration to build beautiful kayaks and as a shop manual for their construction.--Christopher Cunningham"Sea Kayaker" (08/01/2005)
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Kayaks are growing in popularity as a fun, low-impact way to explore rivers or paddle on local waters. Combining easy-to-follow instructions with 472 colour photographs, Kayaks You Can Build takes the reader, step-by-step, through the entire construction cycle of building a plywood kayak. This simple construction process demands neither special skills nor a wood-working shop. This book includes: - Short history of the kayak - Choose the right kayak for your needs and skill level - Setting up your work area and how to build a work table and cradle forms - Details of all the necessary tools, materials and supplies - Tricks of the trade - Laying fibreglass cloth - Minimising exposure to toxic fumes and dust - Avoiding and correcting mistakes - Popular kayak kits - Ted Moores is the bestselling author of Canoecraft. In 1972, Moores pioneered the woodstrip / epoxy boatbuilding system for canoes and, since then, has promoted the fine art of wooden-canoe and kayak construction. Greg Rossel builds and repairs small wooden boats and is an instructor at the Wooden Boat School in Maine. The definitive book for kayak builders. Drawing on more than thirty years of boatbuilding and teaching experience, it enables the first-time builder to assemble a kayak with truly professional results. 472 clear step-by-step colour photographs show you every stage of construction.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This might just be the most comprehensively illustrated book ever written on the process of building stitch-and-glue kayaks. I've read a few, and this one stands out in the crowd. It may come at twice the price of other comparable books (You won't go amiss with anything written by Chris Kulczycki, for instance: The New Kayak Shop: More Elegant Wooden Kayaks Anyone Can Build or Stitch-and-Glue Boatbuilding: How to Build Kayaks and Other Small Boats), but the step-by-step illustrations and tooltips you get here are invaluable! The book is divided into sections: One general section dealing in detail with every aspect and all the do's and don'ts of of stitch-and-glue, and three sections each dealing step-by-step with boats from different kit manufacturers. All sections are richly illustrated with colour photos. The first section takes you through the process of choosing a kit, detailed descriptions of the tools and materials you'll need and richly illustrated step-by-step instructions for each step of the building process. My favourite bits are the "safety tip", "Cheap trick" and "Think lazy" boxes. The book is full of them, and each one can save you both money and time if you read them thoroughly before starting on your own. If you're only going to buy one book on stitch-and-glue kayaks, I'd recommend this one without a flinch.
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Essential Book for Anyone Doing Stitch and Glue
17 Oct 2004
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This book is more complete than the manual that came with the two Chesapeake kayaks I built this year or "The New Kayak Shop" I used to augment the manual. It would not serve as a stand alone as it does not include plans.
However, given plans or a kit this book will provide basic and detailed techniques, and special tricks that will help you build a very good boat. I will read it very carefully before building my next.
The organization makes it especially useful as a reference book. A little over half of it covers the techniques for building and finishing stitch and glue kayaks. The remaining portion is a step by step log of the actual building of Chesapeake Mill Creek, a Pygmy Coho, and a Bear Mountain Enterprise. The Enterprise is a hybrid with a stitch and glue hull and strip built deck.
The authors are very much on appearance rather than performance. There is much detail on varnishing. Note that the three kayaks built here do not have a hatch on the front deck (They didn't want to clutter their beautiful staining and varnishing.)so don't look for guidance on laying out your deck rigging.
This is by far the most complete reference I've seen on this type of boat construction.
However, given plans or a kit this book will provide basic and detailed techniques, and special tricks that will help you build a very good boat. I will read it very carefully before building my next.
The organization makes it especially useful as a reference book. A little over half of it covers the techniques for building and finishing stitch and glue kayaks. The remaining portion is a step by step log of the actual building of Chesapeake Mill Creek, a Pygmy Coho, and a Bear Mountain Enterprise. The Enterprise is a hybrid with a stitch and glue hull and strip built deck.
The authors are very much on appearance rather than performance. There is much detail on varnishing. Note that the three kayaks built here do not have a hatch on the front deck (They didn't want to clutter their beautiful staining and varnishing.)so don't look for guidance on laying out your deck rigging.
This is by far the most complete reference I've seen on this type of boat construction.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Great book, misleading title
7 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
I wish I had had this book the first time I built a stitch-and-glue boat. Loads of really good advice and neat tricks. I'm often approached by people after they've seem my boats asking me for advice. This is now the book I'll recommend first to someone who wants to build a kit. As another reviewer noted, this book is really for someone who plans to build from a kit, not from scratch. If its your first time building, I recommend you follow the author's advice and go with a kit - building from scratch, while exciting, is tough the first time around (unless, perhaps, you're a experienced woodworker). I've seen too many scratch built boats that ended up costing about the same as a quality kit - and looked like crap to boot.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Kayaks You Can Build... IF.....
10 Jun 2006
Format:Hardcover
The title of this book implies that you will know how to build a plywood kayak after reading it. However; it only tells you how to proceed after buying a prefabricated kit from one of three suppliers. (One of which was founded by one of the authors)
Nowhere does it give you the dimensions you need to start from scratch and build your own. If you have lots of money and don't mind buying a kit, this book is an excellent reference. But for builders on a budget like myself, I don't recommend buying this book.
Nowhere does it give you the dimensions you need to start from scratch and build your own. If you have lots of money and don't mind buying a kit, this book is an excellent reference. But for builders on a budget like myself, I don't recommend buying this book.
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