Introducing Skin on Frame Kayaks

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Makhoe van der Vlugt - 8 years ago

Recently, an ultra performance 100ft racing yacht, called Comanche, adopted the same style of splines and ribs covered with a skin, although all in carbon fiber. They did so in order to avoid the delamination associated with the grp foam sandwich construction current race boats are using. Your video drove that point home to me. :)

Antipodean33 - 9 years ago

When you jumped on it that made an awful crunching sound

Kayak Malta - 10 years ago

Cool Place Cool Kayak

Tim O'Brien - 10 years ago

Once the nylon is stitched on the frame what do you use to coat it or water proof it???

jmdragon63 - 10 years ago

How much are your classes and how many days or do you have blueprints on how to make

Julia Mayer - 10 years ago

What kind of Nylon is it?

Julia Mayer - 10 years ago

+Killiii Fish :) thanks!

Killiii Yuyan - 10 years ago

Julia, it's a type of ballistic nylon (8 oz) that is sold by the Skinboat School in Anacortes. They have the best.

ppereira007 - 11 years ago

ok. you totally freaked me out when you jumped on that kayak, lol. very surprised how tough they are.

steven lang - 11 years ago

Killiii - I ask you about how tough the kayak is - here a video that demos youtube.com/watch?v=3Xb_21OLjHE check it out. I appriciate you showing your kayak toughness test - the video above is about how tough the skin is. Hope this help you out if asked again. My question: what is the difference between the skin type vs stip wood type kayak from your view point, durability, ease of use and preference - even though you do skin type kayaks! Let me know your thoughts.

steven lang - 11 years ago

Kiliii - with the previous question answered - and since I have never kayak on open water - are you ever worried about a tear or leak - and if so what would you do? Also what kayak do you use on rivers then? I have been watching your video on skinning kayaks, a work of art all by itself! Great talking with you thanks. Steven

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seawolfkayak - 11 years ago

Hi Steven, the boats here are dedicated sea kayaks so they wouldn't work well on rivers except wide ones. Skin-on-frame river kayaks can be made, however.

steven lang - 11 years ago

Kiliii - good video, good discussion on the subject. Would you use this kind of Kayak on low water rivers / stream runs, or would you move to a strip style kayak - just wondering? Steven

jason bright - 11 years ago

nice vid

Christopher Ellis - 11 years ago

It's great to see young people have interest, and enjoy, the ancient ways. Even if using modern materials, the skills are universal.

Devine Rights - 11 years ago

you went to vancover island? and didn't get ate by a 30' 20,000# eating machine called an orca? you were lucky! because a kayak looks like a baby wale to them ,mmm yummy

tblbaby - 11 years ago

So this special nylon, is it Kevlar? or something they made vests out of before Kevlar (spelling could be an issue on Kevlar :) Super high quality build on those, excellent engineering.

John Crypto - 11 years ago

nice videos subbed :D

Christian Hache - 11 years ago

Dude I'm sold on these bad boy kyaks!

Emerson White - 11 years ago

Are you being serious? The only sense that they reached Europe 25,000 years ago is the sense in which they hadn't left Eurasia. These kayaks certainly hadn't been invented 25,000 years ago.

skjoldfetter - 11 years ago

Well... eskimos did kill off the scandinavian population in greenland around 1200 i think (off the top of my head, could be 100 years off either way), but I haven't heard anything about them going to the european mainland.