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Plans for the home-builder
Strip built: Atlantic Stitch and glue: Merganser Baidarka Eider Eider Singles Skin On Frame Models home page on-line store
All our plans feature full size patterns (so no measuring is required) and a detailed, illustrated instruction booklet.
If you do not see the your favorite boat's plans listed, remember I have plans for all the boats in the catalog on my computer and can produce drawings and full size templates to order. I can also custom design a boat to suit your needs.
Kayak Plans:
Merganser stitch and glue kayak plans $85.00:
Plans include lines drawing, full size templates for all panels and 42 page building instruction booklet including details and accessories including footbraces, deck eyes, seats, and more.
This boat takes between 60 and 120 hours to build
Sizes available:
To purchase plans to build a Merganser kayak, choose either the stitch and glue boat or the strip deck hybrid boat and click the Add to Cart link. You will be able to choose the size you want on the next page.
(Note: USPS is usually the least expensive shipping method, especially for International Orders)
Merganser Stitch and Glue Plans |
Merganser Strip Deck Hybrid Plans |
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Baidarka stitch and glue kayak plans $85.00:
Plans include lines drawing, full size templates for all panels and 42 page building instruction booklet including details and accessories including footbraces, deck eyes, seats, and more.
The Baidarka takes between 80 and 160 hours to build, the Double Baidarka takes between 100 and 200 hours to make.
Sizes available:

To purchase plans to build a Baidarka kayak, choose either the stitch and glue boat or the strip deck hybrid boat, and click on the Add to Cart Link. You will be able to choose the size you want on the next page.
(Note: USPS is usually the least expensive shipping method, especially for International Orders)
Baidarka Stitch and Glue Plans |
Baidarka Strip Deck Hybrid Plans |
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To purchase plans to build a Widgeon kayak, click on the link to add to Cart
(Note: USPS is usually the least expensive shipping method, especially for International Orders)
Double Baidarka Stitch and Glue
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| Cost: $85.00 |

Eider Double stitch and glue plans $85.00
Plans include lines drawing, full size templates for all panels and 42 page building instruction booklet including details and accessories including footbraces, deck eyes, seats, and more.
You can choose to build this boat as an open cockpit double for family outings in calm, sheltered waters or as a two cockpit double for more exposed waters.
The open cockpit eider takes between 50 and 100 hours to build and the double cockpit version takes between 80 and 160 hours.
Purchase Eider Plans:
To purchase plans, choose either Eider Open Cockpit or Eider two-cockpit kayak andclick on the Add to Cart link.
(Note: USPS is usually the least expensive shipping method, especially for International Orders)
| Eider Open Cockpit Double | Eider Two Cockpit Double |
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Cost: $85.00 |
Cost: $95.00 |
12' x 20" Child size "Rising Star"
To purchase plans to build a Rising Star kayak, click on the link to add to Cart
(Note: USPS is usually the least expensive shipping method, especially for International Orders)
Rising Star Stitch and Glue Plans |
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| Cost: $65.00 |
Atlantic Strip-built kayak plans $85.00:
Plans include lines drawing, full size templates for all the forms and building instructions from Nick Schade plus detail and accessory instructions from me including footbraces deck eyes seats and more.
The Atlantic takes between 100 and 200 hours to build.
Oystercatcher Strip-built Kayak Plans $85.00:
Plans include lines drawing, full size templates for all the forms and building instructions from Nick Schade plus detail and accessory instructions from me including footbraces deck eyes seats and more.
The Atlantic takes between 100 and 200 hours to build.
Study plans for the OYSTERCATCHER
To purchase plans to build a strip b\Built kayak, click on the Add to Cart link. You will be able to choose the design you wish to build on the next page.
(Note: USPS is usually the least expensive shipping method, especially for International Orders)
Strip - Built Kayak Plans |
Atlantic
OysterCatcher
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| Cost: $85.00 |
For more strip built kayak plans and kits visit my brother Nick, at Guillemot Kayaks.
Also, see Nick's book The Strip-Built Sea Kayak by Nick Schade
Skin on frame Baidarka plans $10.00

Plans are for a model but are equally good for building the real thing. Scale the dimensions to suit. No instructions supplied. Use The Aleutian Kayak: Origins, Construction, and Use of The Traditional Seagoing Baidarka, by Wolfgang Brinck, McGraw Hill to fill in the details.
Click here for Model Plans
Updated on February 9, 2010
by Shearwater Boats
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or call (207) 386 - 0129 or write to us at:
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