Fine Strip Planked Boats Class @WoodenBoat School
Nick Schade’s course teaches strip-planked boatbuilding, creating two designs: the Adirondack Guide Boat and the microBootlegger Sport sea kayak.
Jun 08, 2025
Strip-Built
Strip Built
Otherwise known as cedar strip, wood strip, or strip planked boat construction.
What is a Sea Kayak?
Tradition
The articles in the late great print magazine “Sea Kayaker” featured articles of people doing multi day expeditions to far exotic places. Today’s legendary kayaks became legendary because of the legendary expeditions to remote shores in which they were used.
Fast Wood Destruction - Making a Kayak - microBootlegger Sport - E29
In this episode I break expensive router bits and tear apart expensive plywood.
Centering the Centerline - Making a Kayak - microBootlegger Sport - E25
Getting the centerline exactly in the center helps assure the strips on either side will be a perfect mirror image.
Stripping up the Front Deck - Making a Kayak - microBootlegger Sport - E24
Adding strips to one side of the front deck.
Whiskey Strip - Making a Kayak - microBootlegger Sport - E20
Fitting in the Whiskey strip of the closing strip on the bottom.
Fine Strip-Planked Boat Building Class at WoodenBoat School
Canceled Due to COVID-19
Better Luck in 2021If you want to build a lightweight, rugged, and beautiful small boat, combining thin strips of wood with epoxy and fiberglass will make a cartoppable, low-maintenance, and gorgeous vessel. Nick Schade has been building strip-built boats for over 30 years. He has written two of the standard texts on the subject, Building Strip-Planked Boats and The Strip-Built Sea Kayak, and his efforts have guided thousands of people through building their own boats using the popular strip-planked method.
Jun 14, 2020Wooden Canoe and Kayak Building Class at WoodenBoat School
Build microBootlegger and Mystic River Tandem
If you can't make the August class, take a look at the one in June.
Aug 23, 2015Build a Strip-Planked Kayak and a Canoe with Nick Schade at CVSW
Build microBootlegger and Mystic River Tandem
If you want to build a lightweight, rugged, and beautiful small boat, combining thin strips of wood with epoxy and fiberglass will make a cartoppable, low-maintenance, and gorgeous vessel. Nick Schade has been building strip-built boats for over 25 years.
Jan 25, 2014Fine Strip-Planked Boat Construction at WoodenBoat School - Mystic River Tandem & microBootlegger
Build microBootlegger and Mystic River Tandem
Registration starts January 2nd.
If you can't make the August class, take a look at the one in July.
Aug 25, 2013
