Amazon.de: The Strip-Built Sea Kayak: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build: English Books: Nick Schade
Although books on strip building canoes abound, this is among the first to adapt the technique to crafting attractive, functional kayaks.
Whatever your reason, you will find building a sea kayak to be unlike anything you have done before.
After searching the net, I came across this book at Nick's Internet site.
- the guy who says that these boats aren't seaworthy is full of bunk!.
If anything, I tend to overdo the book research before starting anything new.
Sea Kayaks and Touring kayaks from Bournemouth Canoes
Day Touring and Weekend Kayaks For Sale Online and from Bournemouth Canoes in Dorset Day Touring and Weekending Kayaks, the kayaks below represent the best of what is available on the market today.
This is as close as you can get to a sea kayak.
Details of Perception Horizon PERCEPTION VISTA An open cockpit fast touring double kayak that can be fitted with an additional child's seat and an over-stern rudder.
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Photo by www.watertribe.org
kayaks and canoes in my paddling and racing fleet: Feathercraft, CLC Patuxent, Sea Wind, X-treme, Surfrigger, Sisson Nucleus
Sea Wind from Kruger Canoes (17.2' x 28', 60lb) is a nontraditional, decked canoe with a rudder, very tough kevlar construction, designed and built by a legendary paddler Verlen Kruger.
X-treme Solo from Spencer Canoes (20' x 28', 28lb), a racing canoe designed by Jack Spencer specifically for Texas Water Safari (TWS); carbon/kevlar construction, very light and fast boat, but still quite comfortable for a long distance paddling.
Bergans ALLY 560 Folding Sea Kayak - Test Paddling
During last weekend I had occasion to do test paddling of ALLY 560 folding sea kayak by Bergans of Norway.
Bergans is more known from folding canoes and ALLY kayaks share the same frame design with their canoes.
The ALLY 560 (18'4'x23', 49lb) is one of the fastest folding kayaks competing probably only with Feathercraft Katsalano (17'9'x22', 45lb) and Feathercraft Jetstream (19'3'x20', 45lb) but Jetstream as a seat-on-top touring surfski falls into different category.
ALLY 560 feels much more as a sea kayak than my Feathercraft K1 expedition.