Re: [Paddlewise] Wooden Boat

From: Kirk Olsen <kork4_at_cluemail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:57:01 -0400
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:26:43 -0700, "Doug Lloyd" <dalloyd_at_telus.net>
said:
> I once contemplated moulding up and making an all-epoxy killer
> wave machine, but working in wood seems a little more realistic
> (especially given I'm more than a casual woodworker).

It appears there's at least one vendor for a homebuilt wood surf kayak:

http://www.surfyak.com/_wsn/page4.html
(if you spend 2 minutes on the surfyak site you will know more about the
boat than I do.)

I could have sworn I saw pictures of a stitch and glue whitewater
playboat,
but I couldn't find it.

Long ago Preston Holms had online photos of how he built the Gecko
surf kayak.  He started with a foam blank, carved the foam, fiberglassed
over the foam then carved the foam out.  Hmm, found it's new home via a
thread at
Nick Schade's excellant kayakbuilder forums 

http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Design/index.cgi/noframes/read/2110

Preston's 1998 build of the Gecko boat
http://www.ptone.com/Kayak/surfboat/building/
which I found interesting as a construction method.

Kirk
-- 
  Kirk Olsen
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