Boat Building Techniques

The sheer strip on the deck are similar to the

After the stripping is done on the hull, it is time to flip it over.

After working diligently on stripping the bottom you eventually come to

Stripping the bottom is much like installing the cheater strips, with the major difference that you need to shape and fit both ends of the strip so the length is correct. Since I am bookmatching these strips I also need to do this while maintaining the grain alignment.

On this Petrel I chose to do a "side herringbone" stripping pattern on t

The Petrel has a hard chine.

In the

All the strips follow the first one in one way or another, therefore it

The easiest way to set up the forms for woodstrip kayak is using an inte