How to Frame a Rob Roy Kayak Learn to build your own kayak how this simple, elegant skin-on-frame design. A great project for home woodworkers and paddle enthusiasts alike.

Was that your first boat building experience? I had built a small wooden sailboat before, but building a skin-on-frame kayak is a whole other process with roots in a different boat building tradition.

Canadian company Trak has been building portable skin-on-frame kayaks for over a decade and is now ready to enter the 2.0 phase. It fancies its overhauled Trak 2.0 to be the "ultimate touring ...

Skin-on-frame folding kayaks depend on dense waterproof plastics like PVC strung over a wood frame or lightweight metal tubing to create the structural integrity of the boat.

Some people yearn to travel by both land and sea. Now, a man in the UK has engineered a single human-powered device that can do the job of both. Enter the Pedal Paddle.

Although it’s a memory he cherishes, the lapstrake canoe Richer and his dad built was heavy and expensive. To address this, Richer turned to a skin-on-frame boat-making process, in which a wooden ...

“Qajaqtuqtut”—Inuit for “they kayak”—the two-month, 600-mile expedition is an attempt to reintegrate the traditional skin-on-frame kayak into Canadian Arctic culture.

The Trak 2.0 is the most adaptable, durable, and convenient touring kayak on the market to date. Take this kayak with you anywhere.