Learn How to Build a Simple Kayak at Home! In this video, discover how to craft your very own stable kayak using just three ...

Each day after work I head out to the garage to see my baby. So far she doesn’t look like much, just slender strips of African plywood and a stack of fiberglass sheets. Big jugs of resins sit on my ...

Competitive kayak fishing is exploding in popularity, mainly because it’s far more accessible to anglers than the Bassmaster series or Major League Fishing. Many of our tournaments are open to anyone ...

“My favorite part was Day One. You start with a few pieces of wood, and by the end of the day it begins to look like a boat.” Matthew Smurthwaite places a strip of mahogany plywood as he speaks. “My ...

Photo Provided Six Marietta High School students spent spring semester hand building a wooden kayak through the school’s art program, under the direction of art teacher Heath Rader. Sophomores Emma ...

GRAND LEDGE -- When Allen Deming decided to opt out of corporate life in 2006, he seized upon an idea: why not build a pair of cedar strip kayaks, one for himself and one for his wife. He had grown up ...

I opted for the do-it-yourself route. An article about wooden kayak kits in Wooden Boat magazine sparked my interest in home-built craft. "If Noah could build an ark after turning 600," I reasoned, "I ...

Rob Sanders uses a small piece of sandpaper to remove the black Magic Marker ink that covers the top and sides of a wooden kayak he is building at Custom Kayaks in North Topeka. Sanders sands the boat ...