Welcome to spira international home-built boat plans. spira international offers a wide variety of different power, rowing, and sailing skiffs, dories, and other boat designs that are simple to build, rugged and seaworthy.. Designing and building these boats combines my deep love of the outdoors, especially water, my 66 years of experience in power boats, sail boats, wilderness canoeing, whitewater canoeing and sea kayaking, my training as an artist and sculptor, and my many years of metal, woodworking and design engineering.. Paddlinglight.com is an online resource for paddlers. it offers information about lightweight canoe and kayak travel, how-to articles, trip reports, adventure stories, kayak plans, canoe plans and reviews..
Building time for the kayak designs is approximately 300 hours.materials cost is in the range of $500 to $700 us dollars.i give you the experience of my building advice and my materials sources to save you a lot of leg work. my hope is for you to be successful and to enjoy building your laughing loon kayak.. The plans are downloadable and free to use and share! simply send an e-mail to. you will receive an automated response with instructions how to access the free kayak plans.. At chesapeake light craft, we receive a steady stream of kind words and photographs from boatbuilders across the country and around the world..
