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Lee Slikkers:
Ah man, ok...now ya got me hooked :)  I recall seeing your posts and build before (and probably asked you the same question then) but that was many PC's ago so thanks for the info.  I will check out that website and likely order the book tomorrow.  I think this could be a real good project for me & my boys...they could learn so much from building something like these.  Thanks again~

barefootbowhunter:
a good friend of mine makes skin boats, they are fishin mashines! he makes the west coast style bidarka or somthin like that. much more stable lots more room and really stealthy, we plan on bowhunting ducks with them next season, should be a lot of fun. me and him keep talkin about ways to hunt seals with them and how cool a seal skin kayak would be, or mayby a walrus skin boat those are really cool not a kayak but still really cool

zdogk9:
"Building Skin on Frame Boats" Robert Morris
"Skin Boats of Greenland" H. C. Peterson
"The Greenland Kayak" Harvey Golden
"Baidarka" George Dyson
"The Aleutian Kayak" Wolfgang Brink
All of these are good, building the qajaq is more of a process than anything else. If you feel that you'd benefit from taking a class I'd recommend Brian at Cape Falcon Kayaks, he's a good teacher his fees are reasonable

venisonburger:
I did a skin on frame covered with canvas and sealed with a UV activated body filler, but oil based paint works too,I'm told  the life span of the canvas is only about 5 years, I sold my boat before it got to that age so I don't know if that's accurate or not. My plans came from a book by George Putz, very informative book. I'm thinking of doing a nylon covered canoe, I find it hard to get in and out of a kayak these days.

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