Launchings/Guestbook

What an expereince! We are hooked on Kayaking.

One Sunday morning I had this hairbrain idea to build a wooden kayak. My son has commented before that he would like to buy a kayak. So I called him and told him my idea. We started on Mothers Day 2007. It's maiden voyage was on Sun. Sept. 31, 2007 on a small private lake here in Jacksonville Il. My son got the first paddle, I the second, and my wife the third. It was awesome.

I was unable to buy the red cedar that I wanted so I made it out of catalpa with walnut accenting.Catalpa is native to this part of the country. My research lead me to find the catalpla which is just a little heavier than the cedar. It is very flexible. We laminated the walnut for the stems, cockpit coaming and edge guard.

Two pictures accompaany this e-mail of our Resolute we built from your plans. The plans and book were very easy to understand and follow.

Thanks again for the great experience.

Bob and Darron Collings
Jacksonville, Il.