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Spend some time in the baidarka mailing list archive. There is a tremendous amount of information there on Greenland-style boats as well as baidarkas and other skin on frame designs.
Wolfgang Brinck, who has written an excellent book on building a wood frame baidarka, is a frequent contributor, and George Dyson still drops by from time to time.
For Greenland style boats, the best building references are probably the Sea Kayaker articles (in two successive issues) by Cunningham, the Boucher video, and a book by H.C. Petersen (in Danish, Inuktitut and English) which is available only from the National Museum in Denmark or from a couple of sources in Greenland.
I'm just starting my first boat, using mostly Cunningham supplemented by the other two. Why the Greenland-style boat? For me, mostly because I was there this summer and want to try the same boats that I have seen - and that are still used for hunting sea mammals. However in my mind I'm already working on at least 4 other designs that I want to build and paddle.
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