Canoe and Kayak Building the Light and Easy Way

Canoe and Kayak Building the Light and Easy Way by Sam Rizzetta is a how-to build a kayak guide offering the first known method that is both fast and simple for constructing canoes and kayaks. Kayakers eager to paddle a boat they built from scratch will find this guide incredibly helfpul with comprehensive instructions on composite construction accompanied by detailed illustrations for assistance.

The author Rizzetta is a master of his craft and offers readers his innovative methods including:

• A construction guide for assembling Kevlar and carbon-fiber watercraft affordable for home builders
• A canoe designed with ergonomic considerations for the long term comfort of paddlers, and
• Instructions for the installation of a foam-flotation component that increases the safety and stability of the water vessel

Rizzetta's expert insight to boat building stems from his background as a master luthier combined with his time as a boat designer and builder. His unique history of assembling stringed fretted musical instruments gave him the impetuous to apply his techniques as a composite fabricator to watercraft.

Rizzetta has designed and built an untold number of watercraft, which he has used in over a thousand miles of paddling global waters annually. His ideas arose from using innovative fabric form methods of boat building in the custom fabrication of aeronautical components using composite materials.

This how-to build a kayak guide offers a unique experience to kayakers and canoeists for both reading and real world application. It's a good read.

Subject: How-to procedures for building kayaks and canoes. ISBN-10: 0071597352 | ISBN-13: 9780071597357 | McGraw Hill 97357