Building

Quick-N-Dirty Oars - Instructions for making oars by David Goodchild.
http://www.diybob.com/oars.htm

Chris' Canoe Project: Building a Freedom 17 Canoe - Chronicles the construction of a cedar-strip canoe with detailed comments and pictures. Includes boatbuilding links.
http://www.aracnet.com/~ncglad/canoeentry.htm

Scubascapie's Kayak Project - Provides photos and description of building a wooden kayak. Also includes related links.
http://www.freewebs.com/scubascapie/

La Mina - Steps and photos of building a canoe with classic shapes, but using modern, readily available, and cheap materials.
http://www.schaik.com/canoe/

Dave's Kayak Building - Details of building a Chesapeake LT17, a 17 foot sea kayak.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~gdmurphy/kayak_page.htm

Simple Oars - Free oar plans with photos.
http://www.bateau.com/free/simple_oars.html

Kayak Building Workshop - Focuses on building sea kayak using traditional Inuit methods in Nunavut, Canada.
http://www.inukshukinn.com/kayak-construction-workshop.htm

Kayak Building WebRing - Connects sites related to building wooden kayaks.
http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=kayakbuild

Sea Spirit Kayaks - A summary of kayak building experiences: North Bay I, North Bay II, Sea Spirit I, and Sea Spirit II.
http://www.seaspiritkayaks.com/

How to Build a Waveski - Step by step guide with pictures on how to build and fix a waveski.
http://members.aol.com/waveskis/shaping.html

Ferwerda Wood and Canvas Canoes - Includes photos and build records of several canoes, particularly the Hiawatha model built on an original Thompson Brothers form. Also features weight comparison for wood and canvas construction versus modern materials, tips for building a seat with a mast ring, and photos of a canoe rigged up for sailing.
http://www.geocities.com/mferwerd/

Ross Leidy's Kayak Building - Personal summaries of building kayaks, canoes, paddles, and cradles. Includes a how-to section with in-depth discussions of a few building and outfitting techniques, including deck fittings, a fiberglass seat and the use of underdeck bungees to secure hatch covers.
http://www.blueheronkayaks.com/

Kent's Kayaks - Provides information on kayak building, pictures of design ideas, resources for materials, and some general information on paddling.
http://www.geocities.com/kentsyaks/index.html

Surfing Outrigger Canoe Project - Summary of building an 18 foot surf canoe. Includes project log, materials list, and summary of the construction steps.
http://www.kzo.net/canoe/

Baker Brothers Boats Seakayak - Amateur boatbuilder's working journals with pictures.
http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/

Wooden Canoe - 14' stitch-and-glue open kayak, built from (free) bateau.com plans, of two sheets of plywood. Construction photos.
http://home.student.uva.nl/b.a.m.loeff/kano/Engels/

PakYak Prototype - Online plans, pictures, and discussion of Jim Heter's custom-designed folding kayak.
http://robroy.dyndns.info/pakyak/

Ken's Temporary Kayak Pages - Information on how building Euro and Greenland paddles, wood strip kayak construction, glassing, and extensive photographs.
http://www.dbeweb.com/kayak/

Grant's Stitch and Glue Canoe - How to build an ultra light stitch and glue plywood canoe that really looks like a canoe.
http://www.riverstoneinternet.com/canoebuilding/

Building a Redwood Canoe - Strippers Guide - Details photographs, instructions, tips and troubleshooting for constructing a redwood canoe. Also includes related links.
http://wooden_canoe.tripod.com/

Don's Kayak Building - Details of personally building a Mill Creek 15 kayak.
http://home.rochester.rr.com/rlm/kayak/Kayak_Page.htm

Graham Skelly's Homepage - Contains links to canoe building and canoeing of wilderness rivers in Canada and the United States.
http://www.geocities.com/qwacker1/graham1.html

Doug's Boat Page - All about building kayaks and native boat technology. Includes an introduction to boatbuilding, freeware and shareware boatbuilding software, free boat plans, pictures, and related resources.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mgarmon/

Real Wooden Boats - Provides tips on building a cedar strip canoe, photos of construction of a Cosine Wherry, and links to other boat building sites.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/boats/

The Canoe Paddle Page - Information on designing and creating wooden canoe paddles. Also offers a photo gallery of paddles and relevant books and articles.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~moosehead/