Wooden Canoe Kits Australia

The canoe kit the kayak kit and the dinghy kit all use the stitch and glue methond of construction for simplicity.

Wooden canoe kits australia. Our basic boat kits. All the plans and the kits include detailed step by step instructions. Wood strip building produces a wood cored fiberglass boat.

Our unique designs are available through vwbc certified agents as full or partial kits that can be shipped australia wide. The wood only kit is just the cnc cut wood good for experienced builders. Your wooden kit will arrive in a 2 x8 box.

We are a small team of australian wooden boat builders based in kettering tasmania and are the sole agents for both chesapeake light craft usa wooden kit boats australia and new zealand as well as grain usa diy wooden surfboard kits australia and new zealand the australian importer and re seller of the world renowned bruynzeel bs1088. With the kits we do the hard part of cutting out the plywood for you you then stitch the pieces together using the supplied materials. These need less skill are quicker to build and can produce a just as strong a boat as traditions methods.

We keep all of our kits in stock. If you get the complete or wood and epoxy kit you will have another one to two boxes that arrive with your other building materials. The wood hull is then covered inside and out with transparent layers of fiberglass and epoxy.

Many people who purchase a basic kit are already handy in working with wood have the necessary tools and feel comfortable reading plans following instructions and the cost may also be important to them. The fiberglass and epoxy layers on both sides of the wood core create a stress skin panel which is very rigid and strong. One long wooden box fits most of the wood canvas and hardware.

This box must be sent by common carrier and may cost between 150 and 250. This allows the beauty of the wood to show through. Comlete kit parts ready for shipment.