Project Overview
Project Overviews
These pages contain outlines and videos of the whole boat building project.
Strip Planked Bootlegger Kayak Building Videos
In this series of videos I document the building of a pair of mahogany strip-planked microBootleggers. I built these boats for a customer who wanted "book-matched" mahogany strips and a carbon fiber interior built without staples.
Outline of How to Build a Strip-Built Kayak
Here is a step-by-step overview of the process of building a strip kayak as described in my book. The bulleted links are to videos showing the process.
Table of Contents
Strip-building - assembling a pile of thin wood strips into a functional hull - has been a popular canoe-building method for many years.