Building an Outer Island Kayak


In January, 2002 I began construction of a cedar strip kayak. I purchased plans from Jay Babina, the designer of a model called an Outer Island. Although I already have two sea kayaks, one I built a few years ago, I had been thinking about building a kayak using cedar strips for quite awhile. This set of pages chronicles the building of my new kayak. Click on the links below to continue...