Just some random shots from the recent Greenland kayak build. This project was a bit of an ass kicking because we used it to re-shoot the entire Greenland half of our skin-on-frame building course, which concludes an insane work push to update all of our courses this year.
The kayak itself is from plate 67 in Harvey Golden’s book Kayaks of Greenland. It was collected in 1931 and interestingly it was originally commissioned by a European botanist. After paddling quite a few copies of various historic West Greenland kayaks I settled on this particular kayak for its classic lines, moderate size, fit, comfort, and relatively sea kindly manners (for a Greenland kayak).
It has also been a good platform to expand upon with scaled up versions and even a stretched version, which isn’t something I would normally do but was a happy accident of a class where a student requested a scaled up version but then changed their mind after the longitudinals were already made. The no longer authentic stretched version of this is actually really nice to paddle.
This particular boat was a custom build for a 135lb paddler so I reduced the depth by 3/8 of an inch and I also cut away the forefoot about a 1/4 inch beyond the traditional measurement which reduces hunting and weathercocking a little bit.
Overall dimensions are: 16’4 long x 20” wide x 6 1/2” deep. I didn’t weigh this one but generally they come out about 27 pounds. I’ll try to post some on the water pictures tomorrow.
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