Stitch and glue kayak: although i had never actually kayaked before, one day i decided to make a stitch and glue kayak. for a non-kayaker i'm not sure why, but it had to do with a rowing class i had taken once, and i wanted to get out on the water on my own boat. also.... Time lapse video of me building the petrel play stitch and glue kayak. there are some sunsets and sunrises when i accidentally left the camera on overnight. a few of the finishing details weren't. In this segment, we begin assembly of the chesapeake 16 kayak. this 14-part video walks you through every step in the construction of a wooden chesapeake 16 kayak. handsome, straightforward to.
I've decided to make the plans for my stitch & glue guillemot available to internet users as "share ware". if you end up building this boat please send me a photograph of the results. if you don't want to deal with lofting from the offsets, you can use the pdf at the bottom of this page or order the hardcopy prints from me. you can read my experiences making this kayak in the journal i tried. To see the entire list of stitch-n-glue videos scroll to the bottom of this page. the photo sequence to the right shows the construction of pygmy's osprey triple kayak kit (featured in wooden boat magazine, vol. 131 & 132, 1996), which also uses stitch and glue in its assembly.. simple construction: stitch and glue. The stitch and glue canoe building method is an easy and affordable way for a beginning canoeist to make his or her own boat. basically, the technique consists of gluing panels of plywood together using epoxy and fiberglass..
