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  • Baker Brothers Boats Seakayak
    Amateur boatbuilder's working journals with pictures.

  • Building a Redwood Canoe - Strippers Guide
    Details photographs, instructions, tips and troubleshooting for constructing a redwood canoe. Also includes related links.

  • The Canoe Paddle Page
    Information on designing and creating wooden canoe paddles. Also offers a photo gallery of paddles and relevant books and articles.

  • Chris' Canoe Project: Building a Freedom 17 Canoe
    Chronicles the construction of a cedar-strip canoe with detailed comments and pictures. Includes boatbuilding links.

  • Don's Kayak Building
    Details of personally building a Mill Creek 15 kayak.

  • Doug's Boat Page
    All about building kayaks and native boat technology. Includes an introduction to boatbuilding, freeware and shareware boatbuilding software, free boat plans, pictures, and related resources.

  • Ferwerda Wood and Canvas Canoes
    Includes photos and build records of several canoes, particularly the Hiawatha model built on an original Thompson Brothers form. Also features weight comparison for wood and canvas construction versus modern materials, tips for building a seat with a mast ring, and photos of a canoe rigged up for sailing.

  • A Good Paddle
    Article about "Uncomplicating Paddle Design, Sizing and Selection" written by Caleb Davis.

  • Graham Skelly's Homepage
    Contains links to canoe building and canoeing of wilderness rivers in Canada and the United States.

  • Grant's Stitch and Glue Canoe
    How to build an ultra light stitch and glue plywood canoe that really looks like a canoe.

  • How to Build a Waveski
    Step by step guide with pictures on how to build and fix a waveski.

  • John Michne's Boat Building Stuff
    Details of the construction of the Wee Lassie II. Includes photos with explanations of progress through the phases and problems. Each section includes a discussion about what was learned and tips.

  • La Mina
    Steps and photos of building a canoe with classic shapes, but using modern, readily available, and cheap materials.

  • My Rushton Canoe
    Aussie-built replica of Rushton's Ugo and other hand-built wooden canoes.

  • The North Woods Paddle
    Article written by Rick Waters and supported by the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association. Describes making a traditional wood paddle.

  • 1914 Old Town Canoe Company, Livery Model
    Preparations to repair a wood canvas canoe.

  • Quick-N-Dirty Oars
    Instructions for making oars by David Goodchild.

  • Real Wooden Boats
    Provides tips on building a cedar strip canoe, photos of construction of a Cosine Wherry, and links to other boat building sites.

  • Ross Leidy's Kayak Building
    Personal summaries of building kayaks, canoes, paddles, and cradles. Includes a how-to section with in-depth discussions of a few building and outfitting techniques, including deck fittings, a fiberglass seat and the use of underdeck bungees to secure hatch covers.

  • Scubascapie's Kayak Project
    Provides photos and description of building a wooden kayak. Also includes related links.

  • Sea Spirit Kayaks
    A summary of kayak building experiences: North Bay I, North Bay II, Sea Spirit I, and Sea Spirit II.

  • Simple Oars
    Free oar plans with photos.

  • Surfing Outrigger Canoe Project
    Summary of building an 18 foot surf canoe. Includes project log, materials list, and summary of the construction steps.

  • Wooden Canoe Heritage Association
    Non-profit group devoted to preserving, studying, building, restoring, and using wood, wood-canvas, cedar strip and birchbark canoes, and to disseminating information about canoeing heritage in North America. Links to builders, suppliers, graphics and related websites.

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