Tag Archives: Freeship

Building a Perfect Kayak: Part 9

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With the fiberglassing finished on the bottom of the kayak, I flipped the kayak over and started in at the Layback Lounge. If you recall from the now many previous chapters of this building log, I needed to do a cockpit recess to get the back coaming height down to a level that would allow [...]

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Notus Racing and Cruising Canoe: An exercise in using FREE!ship

Notus Linesplan

Using the Notus Racing and Cruising Canoe as the subject, this tutorial shows you how to import offsets into Free!Ship and create decks and sails. Also, included is a spreadsheet to make offset import easy, and the imported plans for the Notus for free.

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Goodnow Kayak Free Plans

Goodnow kayak rendered with ice in the background.

The 16′ 8″ Goodnow kayak is stunning. It’s lines flow beautifully and it begs to be built and paddled. At 17 5/8″ wide, I’d have a hard time fitting into it, so I decided to model the kayak for a possible upscale and build. Included here is the FREE!ship file for your download and some information about the kayak.

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