Bear Goes Kayaking

Mike Magee sent me this picture of the model kayak that he built using the Siskiwit SOF drawings. He scaled down the drawings and built a kayak for his teddy bear. We think that President Teddy Roosevelt would be proud. Mike’s next step is to build a full-sized version of the kayak.

While PaddlingLight only provides drawings and not building instructions, there are a couple of books out there for those that wish to try that. Robert Morris’ Building Skin-on-Frame Boats is a classic for your library. Fuselage Frame Boats A guide to building skin kayaks and Canoes or the updated More Fuselage Frame Boats by Jeff Horton are more readily available books. While Christopher Cunningham’s Building the Greenland Kayak covers some details, it isn’t specific to the frame-style SOFs that the drawings address.

Regardless, building a SOF kayak is a rewarding project well worth doing at some point in your life.