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Overview
Nick Schade’s line of strip-planked Greenland-style sea kayaks are renowned for sophisticated performance on the water, beautiful lines, and sculptural hull details. But strip-planked boatbuilding is not for everyone. Novice woodworkers and weekend hobbyists with limited free time may be reluctant to take on the complex strip-planked Petrel kayak design. Nick's solution is a series of Petrels that are built stitch-and-glue style, with great pains taken to retain the strip-planked original's point-and-shoot handling.
The Petrel Scout SG is the quintessential recreational kayak, and at 12' x 26" [3.7m x 0.6m] it is compact and easy to handle. The Scout SG is built stitch-and-glue-style from CNC-cut marine plywood. With a 280-pound [130 kg] capacity, the Scout SG is suitable for large adults, but not too big for children. The standard sea-kayak-sized cockpit can be fitted with a spray skirt for those venturing into rougher conditions.
This design can be built with flush wooden hatches or the watertight rubber hatches typical of production sea kayak designs. Drawings for either option are included.
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