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Kayak and Canoe Plans
PaddlingLight offers many canoe and kayak plans for cedar-strip, skin-on-frame and Yost-style building methods. Homebuilders have built a number of the designs. The most popular designs include the Siskiwit LV, Siskiwit Bay, the Iggy and the Modern Malecite. Twenty-five of the plans are a part of the Winter 2010 to 11 Free Canoe and Kayak Plan Project and many have yet to see a builder. Some may not have been built in over a 100 years.
Note: Not all of the drawings from the Winter 2010 to 2011 Free Canoe and Kayak Plan Project have been converted to shoppable products. You can find the entire list here: Canoe and Kayak Plan Overview.
Free Kayak Plans, Free Canoe Plans, Paid Plans
Most plans are free for individual use. Donations are cool. You can also buy electronic drawings for many of the designs. The electronic drawings show each station on its own, so you can build without any tracing. These are only drawings. If you are getting these to try and build, you will need to buy a book to build from.
If you build a kayak from these plans, please, send a picture so we can add it to the plan’s page.
Copyright notice: These drawings are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission. Permission is granted for an individual to use these drawings to build boats for personal use, but any commercial use, including but not limited to building for commercial gain, including plans in a compilation, such as but not limited to compilations on a book, DVD, pdf, zip file or website, must be approved prior to the use and requires written permission.
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The Iggy: Igdlorssuit
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Siskiwit Bay Kayak Plans
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Siskiwit SOF Sea Kayak Plans
$0.00 – $150.00 Select options -
1898 Passamaquoddy Ocean Canoe
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Modern Malecite St. John River Canoe
$0.00 – $75.00 Select options -
Long Nose Ojibway Canoe Plans
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Fram Museum 1888 West Greenland Kayak Plans
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1910 St Francis Canoe Drawing
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Old Model Ottawa River Algonkin Canoe
$0.00 – $75.00 Select options -
Walrus Sea Kayak
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Malecite Racing Canoe of 1888
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Têtes de Boule Hunter’s Canoe Drawings
$0.00 – $75.00 Select options