Wellington, New Zealand
Hi and welcome to these pages. They show a number of kayaks and boats I've built and paddled over the years starting with a cardboard kayak. I've discovered that home built kayaks and small boats are enormous fun to build and an easy and convenient way to get onto the water. As a result we now have a garage filled up with different kayaks, by designers Sandy Ferguson, Chris Cunningham, Robert Morris and Nick Schade. The latest build is a small utility boat by Ross Lillistone from Queensland, Australia.
Thanks for stopping by.
Steve
Cardboard kayak This was the first one
Mac50 Stitch & Glue Ply Kayak These are two 5.1m x 0.61m Stitch & Glue ply kayaks I built in 2003-2004 which are proving excellent for light touring and easily handle the wind and surf of Wellington
Cunningham Inuit style kayak My first attempt into traditional style Skin On Frame kayak built to techniques described by Chris Cunningham. 5.3m x 0.5 m
Ben's Morris SOF kayak Ben built our second Skin on Frame boat 5.85m x 0.48m based on Robert Morris's book
Guillemot Petrel Our first strip built boat
Greenland equipment Once you've got all these boats you need some other gear to enjoy them. Here's equipment you can make, that can't be easily purchased in New Zealand
Experimental Vids of two new kayaks being built in Wellington
East Greenland hybrid kayak A 5.8m x 0.48m rolling kayak which Ben and I took to KASK in Anakiwa, New Zealand in 2007
Brian Schultz F1 kayak A light and practical SOF for today with a unique profile and surfing credentials.
Morris Recovery SOF A pool boat out of scraps Updated 1 December 2009
Flint Utility boat for oar, sail and small outboard motor http://picasaweb.google.com/stejdor/FlintDinghy# updated 21 March 2011
ScaleReplicas
West Greenland replica A 1/2 scale replica of the Nansen cat 172 kayak in Oslo Museum, Norway
Aleut Biadarka scale replica - Lowie Museum from Zimmerly's construction notes. The original collected from Atka Island Alaska in 1934 by Margaret Lantis
Links
Grant Glazer's Kayak Builders website Grant is New Zealand's kayak building guru. He lives on Waiheke Island, just off the coast of Auckland and is the best source of information locally. He is well kitted out for kayak adventures with several boats of his own.
Pirate Pete's site Pete Notman started us down the road to Skin On Frame kayaks when he lent me his copy of Chris Cunninghams book. This is his site
Tony & Kate Calvert's site Tony and Kate are fellow Wellington kayak builders. They built their first CLC CH16's about the time I was building the Macs.
Kayak Adventures
2007 Kayak Builders Get Together Rotorua pics
Guillemot Petrel launch pics A number of images from the inaugral Petrel launching. Also pics of Chucky IV and Chucky V on Wellington harbour for the first time.
Golden Bay 2008 A summer holiday with kayaks in Golden Bay and the Abel Tasman National Park.
Bikes
Healing Shogun An English style Roadster based on a 1980s Tange Steel Champion 5 tubeset.
Bob Jackson A NOS 1980's Reynolds 531 single speed more BJ pics
Other stuff
Lacrosse Jan 2008 Wellington Tournament
Rancilio Silvia coffee machine rebuild
