Glued lapstrake kayak designs?

[Scott de M]

I'd like to build a kayak but I prefer to build glued lap rather than the ubiquitous strip and stitch and glue. There are a fair number of glued lap double paddle canoe plans but I haven't found any glued lap kayaks. I realize that the line between some of the decked dp canoes and kayaks is pretty blurry, but for current purposes I'll define a kayak as something along the line of can be rolled. Any ideas?

[James McMullen]

I don't know of any Scott. Certainly there are decked canoes like Oughtred's Wee Rob.

Might I suggest skin on frame as yet another alternative to S & G or strip? That's definitely the most fun way for me to build a kayak, and I've tried all of these methods over the past two dozen kayaks I've built. Skin on frame includes delightful opportunities to build angled mortise and tenon joints and steam bending and all sorts of interesting woodworking. Both baidarkas and Greenland styles can be rolled just fine as long as you make a decent knee brace to hook to your masik. There's other trad. styles too, but they tend to be more hunting specialized and less recreationally suitable. There's also modern skin on frame styles by designers like Tom Yost that are less interesting woodworking but even quicker and simple to build.


But if you want to build glued lap, then you're probably stuck with the wee lassie style of double paddle canoe, and these are really only able to pull off the first part of the Eskimo roll all that well.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

It may be kayak hulls (i.e. hulls no more than 24" wide) are just too small to make lapstrake practical.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

It's been done.
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/woo...yak-40486.html

Whether it's worth the effort - you will have to decide for yourself.

[Scott de M]

Thanks James, that's good feedback. Fun to build is what I'm looking for, and I guess the light weight is just an added bonus. The boat on the boat design forum thread looks like a dp canoe to me and does not look worth the effort when one could just build a Fiddlehead or Wee Rob or Wee Lassie.

[Tim Marchetti]

Here's a design that belongs to one of my customers.

[Scott de M]

Interesting Tim, do you know if those plans are for sale? Is this the next generation of the Skimalong II design by Paul Ford that is sold by WoodenBoat?

[Tim Marchetti]

It is a lap ply version of that boat. I cut parts for a prototype kit a while ago. I'll check with the plans owner and get back to you.

[orbb]

Harry Bryan's Fiddleheads may fit the bill: