Strip-built
Strip-built, or "strip-plank epoxy", is a method of boat building.[1] Also known as cold moulding, the strip-built method is commonly used for canoes and kayaks, but also suitable for larger boats. The process involves securing narrow, flexible strips of wood edge-to-edge around temporary formers. The strips are glued edge-to-edge with epoxy. It is effectively a modern form of carvel which need no caulking and which is both stiffer and more watertight. In a small boat, there will be just one layer of strip-planking, but larger vessels may have two or three layers which, (being a pre-shaped marine ply), forms a light, strong and torsionally stiff monococque.
Wood strip-built Kayak
References
- Boat building with strip planking
- "How to build a cedar strip canoe". Compumarine.com. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
- Moores, Ted (2007). Canoecraft: An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction. Firefly Books; Revised & enlarged edition. ISBN 1552093425.
External links
- Canoecraft: an illustrated guide to woodstrip construction
- The construction of strip built kayaks
- DIY methods
- Cold moulded construction
- Selway Fisher design
- Brady 45 video
- Brady catamarans homepage
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