I am on FB pages dedicated to kayaking like " kayak DIY projects and tutorials", " cheap boat yakkers, no snobs allowed", " church of the double bladed paddle", " Duckworks", " kayak building", and love to see the pictures of people on the water, I believe this boat could get more people out on the water for less than any other plan out there. I designed this boat to use as little wood as possible, and to be nearly indestructable, It won't rot, and even if you punch a hole in it, it won't sink. They are made of plywood, and since I am cheap, and don't buy the expensive marine plywood, the cheap plywood must be taken care of or it fails after a few years. While I have built many plywood kayaks, from a simple free design called a mouseboat, to a fast capable tandem kayak called a Larsboat, they all have a few problems. When you are done, you will be a real boat builder, and have an excellent boat to show for it. You can find everything you need to build this boat at hardware stores, the internet, and discount stores. You don't need any boat building books, or much in the way of tools. I designed this boat, and wrote this I'ble, to be as simple as possible. Unlike most boat plans that require you to do a whole bunch of reading and learning, require you to buy or own lots of tools and learn what seems like a whole new language devoted to boat building. But rather read up some the KIteShip achievements at before making judgements that you clearly don't know all the facts about.Do you really want a kayak? Want one so bad you can taste it, but can't afford one, or think you don't have the skills to build one? Then I have a few questions for you.Ĭan you cut a crusty bagel with a knife, stack blocks, stick a sandwich together with mayo, skewer meat and veggies for kabobs, grate cheese, cut thin fabric with scissors, stretch wrinkles out of bed sheets, and roll paint onto a wall? Then you can build this boat! When they do catch up I will watch as the negotiate all the hurdles to meet all the ISAF criteria. More importantly with ongoing developments we recently made a 110 sq m kite which only weighs in at 6.5 lbs with a no need for reinforceing and could pull 4.5 ton with no risk to damaging the sail. It is also used by single handed sailors namely the Mini Transat class. However, the KiteShip Outleader meets al the ISAF measurement criteria as a legal sail and only has three lines total - something the NASA wing cannot do. Yes Tim and Saul are playing with a NASA parawing which has lots of lines and does not measure under the ISAF rules as a sail for a boat. More importantly Tim and Saul have not done any huge ocean crossings (Ishall add just one piece of publicity) as KiteShip has nor do they hold any Guiness World records for the largest kite made for a yacht nor have they managed to tow a commercial barge without a rig - being the largest object to be moved by kite power another Guiness Record across San Francisco bay covered by CNN. If they had been involved I would have met them as I am the European agent for Dave and Dean - but I do know some of the North Sails guys did some work on cloth specs and layouts. I've found that two dead motors are a lot more useful than just one.Ĭlearly you have not read the patent or know Dave Culp and Dean Jordan who hold the patent and were employed by Oracle to make this concept work. "belt and suspenders" an old electronics guru used to say. Our diesel runs on biodiesel and is very clean. This motor is a filthy oil-leaking oil-burning machine. Get a four stroke or an oil-injected two stroke at least. This little motor and big propeller combination pushes the boat okay as long as there isn't too much of a headwind. It looks like the sort of motor a dinosaur would use. It's about 5hp and has the big "barge pusher" propeller. This one is a British Seagull Model 100 made sometime between 19. But we carry a spare outboard motor in one of the outrigger hatches in case the wind dies and the diesel conks out while we're out on the water. We don't usually need any motor at all except to to get in and out of the dead air in the marina. Here on a different outing I'm steering the rudder with my foot and the outboard with my leg. Replace your mixed gas and don't leave it in the motor or your carb will get clogged up with gunk. Be aware that gasoline starts degrading as soon as you mix the two-stroke oil with it and can be pretty bad in a few months. On that occasion our spare motor didn't run because it was too gunked up.
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