Petrel

waitting for warmer weather to final sand, do end pours and varnish my first strip built and fist kayak

I am from Norway, and here is my black Petrel.

Maiden voyage of my new Petrel, October 2 2009. It`s love at first paddle.

"Schade’s kayaks are head-swivelingly beautiful"

Hull and deck built with western red cedar strips, all cut from the same log. Trimmed with ash, oak and mahogany. I launched the kayak today (May 9, 2009) and it is light and nimble, a joy to paddle!

I recently took on the task of designing and building a skin-on-frame kayak in the Greenland Inuit style. "Designing" a SOF kayak before building isn't really the traditional way. Typically they are built to traditional measurements based on an anthropometric measuring system i.e. using hands, hips, arm spans etc. as measurement units. These basic measurements may be tweaked based on the builders experience, making a wider/narrower or longer/shorter as needed by the user.