We just uploaded the new Flat Deck F1 building plans to our site, and a video on YouTube talking about the design (with some great old photos of me crabbing in the surf!). If you’re new here these are solo kayaks that can be quickly rafted together for a stable sailing, fishing, hunting, snorkeling or whatever platform!
This has been one of my hardest projects because it has so many interwoven pieces: I had to completely change our foot brace system, quadruple the complexity of our deck rigging options, design and test three different versions of this kayak, with three different Catamaran locations, and multiple variations on the basic catamaran idea. I also built two normal deck kayaks with the same Catamaran system for comparison.
There’s 6 new videos in the kayak building course showing how to do build the flat deck version, and an entire new chapter on making the catamaran, New instructions for perimeter lines and outfitting, multiple YouTube videos explaining all of it, and Liz made a brand-new plan set, along with a bunch of new pages in the standard plans that cover that version of the catamaran, along with huge global upgrades to all of our kayak building plans, which by tomorrow will include a flat deck version of the LPB and two new sizes for that kayak!
All this only gets us about 40% of the way to the end of this project! Right now I’m making a mini course showing people how to add two different rudder systems and also a drop skeg to our kayaks, and then I’m just going to keep working on the sailing system in the background while we test Dozens of different sail plans and catamaran configurations in lots of different conditions.
The whole thing is pretty overwhelming quite honestly but I think this has the potential to become something very cool. I’m excited to see what people will do with this system.
Check out that YouTube video!
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