Neat Skin-on-frame site

[brian.cunningham]

I found this page while surfing on www.kayakforum.com (http://www.kayakforum.com)
http://www.qsl.net/ws8g/kayforward.jpg
Looks like its all lashed together, no glue!

Both a kayak
http://www.qsl.net/ws8g/kaysof.htm
and a canoe
http://www.qsl.net/ws8g/canoe.htm

[Steve Lansdowne]

Yup, the lashings give the boat flexibility to bend with the stresses imposed by waves and people, and just as a bending tree does not break, so a lashed boat does knot (pun intended) either. Looking at these boats from the inside, as your photo shows, is quite a treat.