Build A Wooden Canoe Kit
Canoe kit this kit contains all the pre cut materials required to build the canoe.
Build a wooden canoe kit. Parts that fit within those dimensions are shown full size. Build your own boat for this season. If your boat isn t listed or you got your plans elsewhere you can put your own kits together from our boat building supplies section.
Included are pre cut and shaped white cedar ribs half ribs and planking spruce rails beveled and rabbeted as needed pre bent stems pre finished caned seats a clinching iron brass tacks bronze bolts and stem bands canvas canvas filler varnish and your choice of marine finish paint. The two most common wooden boat kits methods of construction are stitch and glue and strip planking. You might already have a stash of marine grade plywood and epoxy or it might just be your preference to build a whole boat from the keel up.
The simplest kits use the stitch and glue method. Thousands of builders have assembled chesapeake light craft boats from scratch with these plans. Cnc cut plywood kits.
The basic idea behind a cedar strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter s glue and then cover the hull with fiber glass inside and out. Kits can be found linked at the bottom of each boat plan on the website. Be on the water in a few weeks after receiving your plans or kit.
Kits include all plywood necessary to build your boat. The wooden hull by itself is weak but the two layers of fiberglass make the canoe extremely strong lightweight and waterproof. Our plywood kits are pre cut on our cnc machine from either 1088 okoume marine plywood or 6566 meranti.
Wooden kayak kits building information all of our wood kayaks have been designed from the outset to be simple to build without any kayak building experience or any building experience at all. It takes just a few hours work a day to complete a dinghy or canoe in 1 to 5 weeks with our diy plans kits or workshop courses. Choose your kit from the boats listed below.