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Need something to read while the glue on the strips is drying?

The Books listed below are our best sellers.  Check back often, as we will continually add new titles to this page.

Canoecraft, A Harrowsmith Illustrated Guide to Woodstrip Construction
By Ted Moores & Merilyn Mohr

Deceptively beautiful, the modern woodstrip canoe not only is rugged and responsive in the water, but also can be built by anyone with a minimum of carpentry skills. Step-by-step instructions, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings, reveal the secrets of North America's leading

builder of woodstrip/epoxy canoes and allow even the beginner to create a low-cost classic. "Canocraft" contains plans for seven different canoe models, including the Peterborough, Prospector, C-4, English 20 and Sunnyside Cruiser.

The Strip-Built Sea Kayak : Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build by Nick Schade

Strip-building is the most flexible, forgiving, and attractive way to build a small wood boat. Professional sea kayak builder Nick Schade presents complete plans and measurements for three kayaks: Great Auk, a fast, stable, comfortable single for beginners; Guillemot, a beautiful, high-performance single for intermediate and skilled paddlers; Guillemot Double, a spacious kayak for two.

Here's all the information you'll need to build a sturdy, elegant sea kayak, from setting up shop to making a paddle.

The Kayak Shop:  Three Elegant Wooden Kayaks Anyone Can Build by Chris Kulczycki

The Kayak Shop includes complete plans and step-by-step instructions for building Yare-a 16-foot, 28-pound high-performance single that can be built in 40 hours from two sheets of plywood; Cape Charles, an 18-foot, 38-pound expedition kayak; and Pocomoke, a 20-foot toring double that, at 52 pounds, is light enough for one person to paddle. Also included is a section on designing your own kayak, and plans for building paddles

from wood and epoxy. Most knowledgeable boatbuilders agree that wood is stiffer, lighter, and more fatigue-resistant than fiberglass or plastic. And no one doubts that wooden boats are more beautiful. Here are three gorgeous, ultralight, high performance, man-powered wooden boats anyone can build using only simple handtools and a saber saw. These kayaks can do anything the best plastic boats can do, for less than half the price of the least expensive ones-and at less than half the weight.

KayakCraft, by Ted Moores

Ted is the author of Canoecraft, one of the top books on strip-building canoes. Kayakcraft will cover... well, kayaks! There are four Steve Killing designs featured, including the 17' Endeavour. Also included in the book are lines and offsets for a 14' sport kayak, a 16'6" touring kayak, and a 20'6" tandem kayak.

If you have ever built a strip canoe, you'll want this book for the designs as well as the additional techniques for making the cockpit coaming, hatches, and decking. And, if you already have some of the building skills, getting the low -down from a builder whose work hangs in museums is likely to improve your own technique a notch or two.

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