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

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 ...

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.

Canadian company Trak has been building portable skin-on-frame kayaks for over a decade and is now ready to enter the 2.0 phase. It fancies its overhauled Trak 2.0 to be the "ultimate touring ...

Was that your first boat building experience? I had built a small wooden sailboat before, but building a skin-on-frame kayak is a whole other process with roots in a different boat building tradition.

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 ...

Skin and bones: Backcountry Custom Canoes Backcountry Custom Canoes, an upstart Ontario manufacturer pushes the limits of lightweight canoe and kayak construction.

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 ...

He also liked the idea of a skin-on-frame boat because they weigh less than 40 pounds and are easy for one person to place on top of a car.