Building the Greenland Kayak - Cunningham, Christopher

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Résumé :
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Design

The Greenland Design as a Recreational Kayak

Anthropometric Measurement

Circular Saw Blades

Drill Bits

Keeping Your Tools Sharp

The Art of the Jig

The Steam Box

Safety

Wood

Fabric

Deck Lines

Deck Fittings

Lashing Material

Knots and Lashings

Trunnels

Ripping

Planing

Scarfing

Laying Out the Gunwales

Building Forms

Orienting the Gunwales

Marking the Gunwales

Cutting Rib Mortises

Shaping the Gunwales

Cutting the Deck Beam Mortises

Beveling the Gunwales

The Building Forms

Beveling the Gunwale Tips

Hollowing the Sheer

Preparing for Deck Beams

Straight Deck Beams

Arched Deck Beams

Cutting Tenons

Test Fitting

An Alternative to Mortise-and-Tenon Joints for the Deck Beams

Assembling the Gunwales

Locking the Gunwales and Deck Beams

Trunnels to Join the Ends of the Gunwales

Pegging the Tenons

Deck Beam Lashings

The Rib Gauge

Cutting Ribs to Size

Thinning the Ends of the Ribs

The Bending Jig

Steaming and Bending

Pinning the Ribs

Bow and Stern Blocks

Attaching the Keelson

Chines

Lashing the Chines

Stem Plates

Masik

Deck Ridges

Trial Run

Oiling the Frame

The Cockpit Hoop

The Coaming Flange

Floorboards

Pulling Longitudinal Tension

Pulling Transverse Tension

The Decks

Sewing

Installing the Coaming

Coatings

Leather

Beads

Sliders

Deck-Line Placement

Laminating a Paddle Blank

Shaping the Paddle

Paddle Armor

Tapering the Blades

Rounding the Shaft

Trimming the Blade E...

Biographie:
Christopher Cunningham has been the editor of Sea Kayaker magazine, America's leading sea kayak publication, since 1989. His father first took him paddling at the age of 4 or 5. He rebuilt his first kayak in the early 1970s and has been building kayaks since 1979. He taught Greenland kayak construction at the WoodenBoat school for three years, with seven students each year producing their own kayaks. He has built four 1:5 scale models of traditional kayak frames for the Alaska State Museum and was featured building a Greenland kayak in a one-half hour episode of Craftsmen of the World for Japanese Public Television. Chris has twice rowed up the Inside Passage from Washington to Alaska, paddled 2,500 miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and rowed 2,400 miles from Pittsburgh to Florida. HOMETOWN: Seattle, Washington...

Sommaire:
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Design

The Greenland Design as a Recreational Kayak

Anthropometric Measurement

Circular Saw Blades

Drill Bits

Keeping Your Tools Sharp

The Art of the Jig

The Steam Box

Safety

Wood

Fabric

Deck Lines

Deck Fittings

Lashing Material

Knots and Lashings

Trunnels

Ripping

Planing

Scarfing

Laying Out the Gunwales

Building Forms

Orienting the Gunwales

Marking the Gunwales

Cutting Rib Mortises

Shaping the Gunwales

Cutting the Deck Beam Mortises

Beveling the Gunwales

The Building Forms

Beveling the Gunwale Tips

Hollowing the Sheer

Preparing for Deck Beams

Straight Deck Beams

Arched Deck Beams

Cutting Tenons

Test Fitting

An Alternative to Mortise-and-Tenon Joints for the Deck Beams

Assembling the Gunwales

Locking the Gunwales and Deck Beams

Trunnels to Join the Ends of the Gunwales

Pegging the Tenons

Deck Beam Lashings

The Rib Gauge

Cutting Ribs to Size

Thinning the Ends of the Ribs

The Bending Jig

Steaming and Bending

Pinning the Ribs

Bow and Stern Blocks

Attaching the Keelson

Chines

Lashing the Chines

Stem Plates

Masik

Deck Ridges

Trial Run

Oiling the Frame

The Cockpit Hoop

The Coaming Flange

Floorboards

Pulling Longitudinal Tension

Pulling Transverse Tension

The Decks

Sewing

Installing the Coaming

Coatings

Leather

Beads

Sliders

Deck-Line Placement

Laminating a Paddle Blank

Shaping the Paddle

Paddle Armor

Tapering the Blades

Rounding the Shaft

Trimming the Blade E...