Learn to build your own kayak with this simple, elegant skin-on-frame design. A great project for home woodworkers and paddle enthusiasts alike. How to Frame a Rob Roy Kayak ...

This kayak is the second prototype in a series of short and lightweight recreational kayaks. The hull was designed in SolidWorks and optimized using design study tools and further modified for ...

Although it’s a memory he cherishes, the lapstrake canoe Richer and his dad built was heavy and expensive. To address this, Richer turned to a skin-on-frame boat-making process, in which a wooden ...

The kayak uses carbon fiber ribs in the frame, helping to cut weight down to 42 lb (19 kg). That frame, which also has aluminum beams, slides inside a tough, military-grade polyurethane skin, and ...

Hillerich and Mitch Larsen, who has been building wooden boats for 20 years, instruct and oversee students as they construct boats in a style known as "Greenland skin-on-frame" kayaks.

Skin-on-frame boats are made of living things, but in a sense, they also feel like they are alive. Tell us about one more sublime moment you had in your F1, please.

ST. MICHAELS — This fall, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and Delmarva Paddlers Retreat are partnering up to offer the public a chance to build their own skin-on-frame kayak.

"The canoe is a skin-on-frame canoe made from Douglas fir and steam-bent green oak with a ballistic nylon skin stretched over it," said Ben. "The reason for going with that design was because it ...

The design of a traditional large skin on frame boat used by the Unangax̂ people was thought to be lost after Russian colonizers destroyed the last remaining examples in the 1800's, but after ...

Some people yearn to travel by both land and sea. Now, a man in the UK has engineered a single human-powered device that can do the job of both. Enter the Pedal Paddle. OK. So picture a canoe, but ...