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GUILLEMOT KAYAK

Builder Name
John Craven

John Craven made excellent use of scrap lumber in the construction of this Guillemot kayak designed by Nick Schade. He use scrap plywood and particle board for the kayak form and cedar, redwood, and mahogany left over from his other construction projects.

Guillemot Sea Kayak

Builder Name
Kevin Rautio

Lofting the plans from Nick Schade's book, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak, Kevin Rautio built this 17′ Guillemot Sea Kayak from Spanish cedar. He spent about a year building it, including the lofting and scratch-building everything, even the strips.

GUILLEMOT KAYAK

Builder Name
Perry Risley

Using Nick Schade's book,  "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak," Perry Risley built this 17' x 21' Guilllemot kayak and paddle. He made both boat and paddle of ash and Western red cedar with white accents of poplar. He mentions that Michael Earle was a tremendous help to him.

Guillemot Hybrid Night Heron

Builder Name
Zachary and Tim Fall

Father and son project. Our first boat build, she took us a little over a year in all, but she finally hit the water yesterday.

Guillemot Night Heron

Builder Name
Stirling Cummings

I wanted to share with you a couple photographs of my Night Heron kayak (LOA 18′, beam of 20″), designed by Nick Shade of Guillemot Kayaks . The boat took nearly two years of weekends and evenings to complete, with work proceeding at a glacial pace during some periods.

FEATHER

Builder Name
Mitchell Skinner

FEATHER is a 16' cedar strip sea kayak Guilllemot design by Nick Schade of East Glastonbury, CT This is the first boat Mitchell Skinner built. It was launched in May 2002 and he uses it on the coast of Maine and NH.

Kayak

Builder Name
James McGorry

James McGorry of Aurora, Colorado, built this 17′ LOA kayak relying on information from Nick Schade’s two articles on building the 10′ Nymph kayak that appeared in WB 199 and 200. He made the hull and outer rail from basswood, and the  stems, seat, backrest, and inner rail from mahogany.

Meet at the Beach

A yearly gathering of boat builders and kindred spirits. See what other boat builders have been up to over the winter. Started primarily by kayak builders but any small, car-toppable boat is welcome.

Try other boats and go for a nice paddle along Connecticut’s largest section of undeveloped coast line.

GUILLE

Guillemot design kayak.
Strip plank cedar.

Rescued (not my build) and have stripped off 3 kgs of paint and bits.
More to do over time.
Beautiful already.

Night Heron Kayak

Builder Name
Stirling Cummings

Despite working at times “at a glacial pace” for two years, Stirling Cummings of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, finshed and launched his 18′ Night Heron kayak on a cold windy day in February 2012 on Jordan Lake, near Chapel Hill.