Making a West Greenland Kayak

Today I made the gunwale forms. Five forms used to form the rails and hold them in place while adding shape to the bow and stern ends and he...

After finishing the last of the deck-beams mortises the last task on the gunwales was to bevel the inside edge of the rails. The bevelling l...

Next the mortises for the eleven deck beams. All the joints are mortises that sit at 17º and together with that each beam will sit against ...

After finishing off the last 30 mortises on the second gunwale its was time to plane the ends to shape. A batten is clamped and layed out a...

I hope to keep a building account of my first kayak build. I am mainly following " Building the Greenland Kayak by Chris Cunningham...