Kayaks You Can Build by Ted Moores and Greg Rossel ($35.00) In this well written and illustrated, hard cover, four color book Ted and Greg give us everything we need to know about building Stitch n Glue and Kayaks. First there is a little history of the hard chined kayak, then the reader is taken through many of the common procedures for most plywood kayak kits (drilling holes, joining planks, applying epoxy). Finally, the authors build three different kayaks from kits supplied by three different manufacturers, one of which is a Hybrid.

Especially helpful are the hints, tricks, and techniques that are highlighted every few pages. Even if you have already built a plywood kayak you will find this book very useful and educational.

KayakCraft by Ted Moores ($19.95) Ted Moores uses the skills he has developed in wood strip canoe building to walk you through the building process of the popular Steve Killing design Endeavour 17. With this book you get the lines and offsets to build Endeavour, plus 3 other strip-built kayaks. Ted shows you tips and techniques that can be used on most strip-built boats. Good pictures and technical explanation.

Canoecraft by Ted Moores ($19.95)

After 12 printings and more than 140,000 copies sold, Canoecraft has been completely revised and expanded to include new designs and is illustrated with dozens of new photographs taken by Ted and his daughter Jennifer. Canoecraft now contains text on maintenance and repair, paddle making, sharpening and using tools, making feature planks, stapleless construction and has updated sources for materials. There are also offsets for five new designs, the Freedom 17, Bob's Special, Redbird, Prospector, Ranger, Hiawatha, Rob Roy, and Huron Cruiser.

Illustrated Guide to Wood Strip Canoe Building by Susan Van Leuven ($39.95)

Susan Van Leuven takes you through the complete construction process from cutting and erecting your own forms, to stapleless construction, fiberglassing, designing your yoke and gunwales. She is very good at presenting several methods to accomplish each phase of the process. The canoe Susan is building is the Wee Lassie II, designed by Mac McCarthy and featured in his book, Featherweight Boatbuilding.

Building an Adirondack Guideboat by Michael Olivette and John Michne ($29.95)

John and Michael spent a couple of years building several boats and refining the techniques that they present in this book.  It is an extremely well written account of building an Adirondack Guideboat that is stripped with cedar over ribs and glassed on the outer hull.  The authors supply a wealth of pictures and diagrams to pass on their years of experience. The result is a very lightweight, traditional looking Guideboat that is reasonably maintenance free as all the wood parts are encapsulated in epoxy resin.  Note that this construction method differs slightly from the Guideboat kit that we offer in that this has ribs inside.  If you want the traditional look, this is it!