Newfound Woodworks of Bristol, New Hampshire, specializes in strip-built canoes and kayaks. Their Sea Wolf kayak, designed by Hans Friedel of Sweden, has stability that would put novice paddlers at ease and provide a reassuring platform for fishing or photography. For more ambitious endeavors, it is the company’s “best expedition-style kayak.”The Sea Wolf can be built from plans or a kit.For scratch builders, the plans set consists of eight sheets. Six are printed with full-sized patterns for the 16 station molds, bow and stern end-forms, hatch spacers and lips, and the two bulkheads. The remaining two pages are overall views, one indicating the placement of the molds on the strongback, the other showing the placement of all the fittings on the finished kayak. Included with the plans is a 30-page manual of detailed step-by-step instructions illustrated with color photographs.

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