Chesapeake Light Craft offers boatbuilding kits for many kinds of small boats. One of their models is called the Mill Creek Kayak, which comes in a couple of sizes. But another thing they offer is an additional kit called the “CLC SailRig.” This rig can effectively turn one of their kayaks into a sailing kayak-trimaran. (more…)
Tom Raidna is an amateur boatbuilder, sailor and most importantly … a small trimaran enthusiast :-) He contact me the other day to show me an economical project he’d recently completed — a small tri model designed by Jim Michalak called “Trilars.” (more…)
The following is taken from a recent interview I did with Chuck Leinbweber of Duckworks Magazine and the Duckworks online boat building supply store. You can download the full interview by clicking on the link at the end of this article …
My question:
Is it still a lot cheaper for a person to build their own boat rather than go out and try and buy what they want … assuming, of course, they can find what they want?
