Sea Island Sport

Chesapeake Light Craft hired Nick to design this kayak to add a sit-on-top to their line of wooden kayak kits. This is a picture of their prototype.

Chesapeake Light Craft hired Nick to design this kayak to add a sit-on-top to their line of wooden kayak kits. This is a picture of their prototype.

Chesapeake Light Craft hired Nick to design this kayak to add a sit-on-top to their line of wooden kayak kits. This is a picture of their prototype.

Jim paddling past Ram Island near Mystic, CT.

I was talking to John Harris at Chesapeake Light Craft last fall. As the conversation wandered around various boats and projects we were working on, it became apparent that we each had some issues that we might be able help each other with. I had some designs that I had not had the time to develop usable plans and instructions for, and he had a demand for some boats that he didn't have time to develop designs for. People had been hounding him for a Sit-on-Top (SOT) kayak kit, and people had been hounding me to release my stitch and glue SOT design. I also had a surf kayak design that I thought was pretty cool but had not had the time to prepare usable instructions for.