Laughing Loon Building Plans
I reveal dozens of tricks to make strip building easier, more than any books on strip building I've seen, and I've seen them all.
Let me guide you through the strip building process and you will have fun!
Wood strip building is easy enough for a beginner and yet is also the choice of professionals. A boat is created by gluing wood strips, edge to edge, over hull forms called stations. The wood hull is then covered, inside and out, with transparent layers of fiberglass and epoxy. This allows the beauty of the wood to show through. Wood-strip building produces a wood cored fiberglass boat. The fiberglass and epoxy layers on both sides of the wood core create a stress skin panel, which is very rigid and strong. Such a hull does not need internal ribs for strength and can be very lightweight.
"The wood strip method of building allows me to design and build boats with complex hull shapes. I don't have to compromise my hull design to the limitations of a less flexible building material or to the convenience of a manufacturing technique. All my designs use the wood-strip building method."
Rob Macks- designer / builder,
Laughing Loon Canoes & Kayaks
For a sampling of the information I provide to make strip building easier!
Go to my -Shop Tips , Stapleless Stripping -and -Transparent Lay-ups pages