The Canoe Shop

Three Elegant Wooden Canoes Anyone Can Build

Chris Kulczycki

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Ragged Mountain Press
30 March 2001

Carpentry; Ships & shipping: general interest; Canoeing & kayaking

"International Marine published Chris Kulczycki's ""Kayak Shop"" in 1993. The book includes complete plans and building instructions for three wooden sea kayaks for the home builder. The boats are beautiful and seaworthy craft built from marine plywood and epoxy using the ""stitch and glue"" method. Last year we undertook a new edition of that book due to its continued success and the evolution of the author's kayak designs. ""The New Kayak Shop"" will be published in September. Now Kulczycki offers ""The Canoe Shop"": complete plans and building instructions for three elegant and rugged touring canoes that anyone can build - a 12-foot double paddle canoe, a 14-foot solo canoe, and a 16-foot tandem boat. With this new book Kulczycki applies the successful model of the ""Kayak Shop"" to a much larger potential audience. (The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association estimates that 13.6 million Americans participated in canoeing in 1998, versus 35. million for kayaking). In style and organization, ""The Canoe Shop"" closely resembles ""The Kayak Shop"". It is a well-illustrated, user-friendly guide that walks the novice through the construction of the three boats, and simultaneously teaches boatbuilding techniques with wider application. In content it differs somewhat, as these new designs call for a different building approach. The canoes feature ""lapstrake"" construction, a traditional building technique in which each plank (or strake) overlaps the plank below. Lapstrake construction accentuates the lines of a boat beautifully, and many consider it the finest method of wooden boat construction. In the past, lapstrake boats had to be built in full-sized moulds and were beyond the skills of the amateur builder. Using computer-faired hull shapes, Kulczycki has been able to create boats that will assume their intended shape without a mould, and can be stitched together and bonded with epoxy like his kayaks."

By: Chris Kulczycki
Imprint: Ragged Mountain Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 185mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 293g
ISBN: 9780071372275
ISBN 10: 007137227X
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 30 March 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Over 10,000 stitch-and-glue boats have been built to Chris Kulczyckis designs. His plans have been published in numerous magazines and books. The company he founded has become the largest boat kit and plan manufacturer in the world. His designs have been licensed to a kit builder in Japan and are sold by distributors in Europe and Asia. Chris also taught boatbuilding courses at the WoodenBoat School and in other programs for 10 years. He is the author of three books and over 100 magazine and newspaper articles. He has been contributing editor to Sail magazine and a regular contributor to Cruising World, WoodenBoat, Sea Kayaker, and others. His articles have also appeared in Outside, Mens Journal, and other magazines. His photos have appeared on a WoodenBoat cover and in interior spreads in Cruising World and Sail. Chris sold Chesapeake Light Craft three years ago to concentrate on writing.