Paddles
Custom Greenland and Aleut style kayak paddles and single blade Bering Sea paddles.

Boat Building Classes
Learn how to build a skin on frame kayak, canoe or curragh.

Boat Building Classes at CCK
Schedule of building classes at CCK's Oakland location.

Sponsor a Boat Building Class
Don't want to travel to Alameda to build a boat? Sponsor a class in your town and we will come to you.

Boat Restoration and Repair
Have your old kayak or canoe restored.

Boat Completion
Has your or your partner's uncompleted boat project sat in the garage for more than a year? Give us a call and we'll help you finish it.

All the News that Fits

March 4, 2008

New Blog Home

I have migrated future blog entries over to skinboatjournal.blogspot.com

The main reason for the migration is that these folks provide an environment that makes posting easier. Not only that, but they also archive the blogs automatically. So with this new ease of blogging, I should be updating the blog more often.

Blog Archives

To check out the archives of the old blogs that used to be posted on this website, Click Here.

Pt. Hope Kayak Completed

The latest model to emerge from the shop, the Pt. Hope kayak has been launched and tested on the water. A brief review is available at blogspot.com

Contact

NEW - now at blogspot.com
Boat Building Blog
Random thoughs on the topic of boat building.

Blog Archive
Archive of blogs that pre-date the switch to blogspot.com.

Boatbuilding Tales
Profiles of skin on frame boat types and paddles to come out of our shop.

• A King Island replica A short baidarka
• A canoe
• A playboat
• A Greenland trio
• A bent shaft paddle
• Building baidarkas in the Aleutians
• Overhauling a baidarka
• Boat weights

Boat Building Info
Skin on Frame Boatbuilding illustrated. Greenland kayaks, baidarkas, boatbuilding in Akutan, boatbuilding in Cold Bay, Rib technology, Frame joinery illustrated.

Baidarka Lore
Baidarka building in the Aleutians, Ivan Veniaminov, kayaking missionary.

How-to tips on paddling
Rolling videos, cold water survival and more.

Wood Lore
Info and lore of the use of wood in boat building.

Bibliography
A list of books about canoes and kayaks

Glossary
A list of small boat terms

About
Wolfgang Brinck's boat building bio.