For the past few years I’ve talked about building a boat. More specifically I’ve talked about building a small, easy to transport, boat. Something like a kayak or a canoe. Well Friday afternoon my family and I went to the lake to fish off the bank. The place we went to was a little bay right off of the main lake. As I was sitting there fishing I thought about building a boat again. I thought it would have been awesome to have just a small boat that I could paddle out maybe like 100 feet and fish. With that being said, my plan is to have some type of aquatic transit vehicle by the end of the summer. It doesn’t have to be super fancy, just something that I built myself and gets the job done.
When we go fishing off the bank we normally pack a lot of things: Soda cooler, minnow buckets, tackle box/es, fishing poles, cooler for fish, chairs, . . . . with all these items in the truck, space is at a premium so if when I build a boat it will need to be space conservative. I have done some research and found some really cool commercial folding kayaks, but they start out at over $1000. I think it would be really neat to have one of them, but like I said, I kinda want to build it myself. A few options I am looking at right now are 1 sheet boats. This is a boat that is constructed out of just 1 sheet of plywood. The reason I am looking at these are because not only are they small-ish, they are cheap to build. The major factor in building this boat will be cash. It may take me a while to acquire the materials to build a boat due to the cost. That is why I need to find a cheap plan.
Just about an hour or two ago I stumbled across this really cool kayak made out of coroplast. Yes, coroplast. The same stuff that political signs are made out of. This particular kayak is made out of a 4×8′ sheet of the stuff and it holds up to a rectangle for storage. If I can find the plans I will most likely build this. It’s pretty much exactly what I’m looking for! Here is the designer’s YouTube video of his coroplast kayak…..
I enjoyed going thru your blog! We have a lot in common. Keep showing the world what you have up your sleeve.
Thanks! I’ve been looking through your blog as well. There’s a lot of things I find interesting over there.