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 ...

A man in the U.K. has engineered a single human-powered device that is both bicycle and canoe. ... KILNER: That is built using a skin-on-frame canoe, very much how ancient canoes used to be built.