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Building a Skin-on-frame kayak
Follows the construction of a skin on frame kayak. It's simple enough to do with hand tools, although a table saw makes ripping the stringers a lot easier. Stringers (long pieces are made from clear pine. Frames are cut from exterior grade plywood. Skin is vinyl-coated polyester. Total cost - about $300 Total hours - about 150. Weight is 44 lb.

I'm planning to add a coaming to the open cockpit so I can use a spray skirt.
Good speed through the water.
Paddle is a little too short. Next item of business is to carve out a Greenland-style paddle
Maiden voyage. She tracks pretty well.
One side of decking glued in place.
Cover is not as taut as I'd prefer, but the material has zero stretch.
Full set of frames
Long view showing trimmed fabric. Hull is essentially done.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Goldenrod! I rarely name my projects but this seems appropriate.
Inserting PVC pipe in bow for bowline
Finished hull.
Hull skin on. Ready to apply decking
Fold in hull skin. The hull material has no stretch.
Trimming and overlapping folds to smooth out.
Stem almost finished.
Hull trimmed and stapled- stem being folded and glued. Takes a lot of hand-fitting here.
Hull laid out for trimming
Skin material - Coverene from Mauritzon Inc.
Somewhat portly guy showing you the scale of the b
Finished frame, ready for planing and sanding
Detail of bow being glued Note deck beam in place
Bow end showng deck beam placement
3 4 view of frame
Profile sorry , doesn t seem to be any way to rot
Stem showing some detail of the stringer attachmen
Sheer clamps fitted Gluing tapered ends to bow (Cu
 
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