Setting to sea in a vessel crafted by your own hands made of materials harvested from the land. This is an experience that provides a link to generations of mankind before you extending all the way back to when humans first made some primal decision to return to the Sea from which they emerged. Feel the weight of that history drive your efforts to construct this intrepid little boat that will carry you out upon the perilous ocean.

After working, bending and shaping the wood to your will; inhaling the essence of it into your lungs; watching it assume a shape you envisioned and become so much more than the sum of the raw materials with the addition of your labor...

How can we ask WHY?

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: I'm calling on all wooden boat building gurus out there to help me make an
: argument for wood kayaks over just fiberglass. Beyond aesthetics, which is
: a given, are there structural and functional benefits to strip or stitch
: and glue boats over their glass counterparts? Help me out.......