This is an excellent East Greenland kayak: low-volume, well-balanced, highly-rockered, maneuverable, and of course very easy to roll. I find it roomy enough for day trips and comfortable in rough water. I'd love to make a stitch and glue plywood version with bulkheads, hatches, and a retractable skeg.
19.5 ft LOA
20.25 in beam.
Andrew,
thanks for making these available. That book is a good buy, I think, with all its documentation of related craft like umiaks and canoes.
And greetings from the East Coast!
Adam
paddlingtravelers.blogspot.com
Posted by: Adam Bolonsky | December 02, 2008 at 06:04 AM
Can you point me to a littl more info on this boat? If you have built it, do you have pictures on this site? I can't seem to find them! I'm pretty excited about this deisgn.
Thanks
Rob
Posted by: rob | February 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Rob,
You can find pictures of the completed kayak under the photo album titled "The Jewel" as well as my building notes under the "Skin on frame kayak building" category on the sidebar. It also appears scattered throughout my blog in other random posts.
Posted by: Andrew | February 25, 2009 at 06:34 PM
RE: Adams comment above. What book?
And greetings from the East Coast as well.
thomas
Posted by: thomas armstrong | March 28, 2009 at 09:39 PM
Thomas,
I think he is referring to Adney and Chapelle's "Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America."
Posted by: Andrew | March 29, 2009 at 09:25 AM
I have start to do a model of the "chapelle". (60cm)
It's a nice kayak.
When it will be finish I try to do a real one for my son
Posted by: Bellieud | May 27, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Thank you for posting the Greenland Kayak Plans. I used to have the book and in fact I've built three of these delightful craft but can I find a drawing? Hah. I want to build a portable knock down so the drawings are necessary to figure out the joints. Thanks
Jim Prendergast
Posted by: Jim prendergast | September 13, 2009 at 08:27 AM