Wood Duck

Product Description

These beautiful little boats are designed for just about everyone to enjoy on the water.

Wood duck has been out on Windermere several times and is brilliant — tracks beautifully, forgivingly stable, and covers the miles fairly effortlessly given its novice paddler owner.

Claire M

Although the Wood Ducks are kayaks the large cockpit gives the open boat feeling. With big cockpits and ample stability, the emphasis is on comfort. However, these boats really paddle well. Speed is excellent: you can cover the miles in a day, while tracking is solid in stiff crosswinds.

Compact, easy-to-launch boats seem to get used the most. In a tenth of the time it takes to launch a heavy boat on a trailer or drag the big canoe down the beach, you can slide one of these little kayaks into the water and be on your way. Keep your Wood Duck on top of the car ready to use.

The Wood Ducks are amongst the easiest to build kits: the joints are pre-cut and the holes are pre-drilled. Sheathed inside and out in glass fabric, the Wood Duck will withstand real-world abuse on gravel or shell beaches, and will bounce over submerged stumps without harm.

Capacity is ample and meant to accommodate a broad range of paddlers. The cockpits are long to make it easy to get in and out without confining legs and knees. A flush hatch for the rear compartment is standard. The boats can carry a heavy payload in the fore and aft compartments, enough for picnicking, camping or a whole lot of fishing gear.

Unlike our other boats, the Wood Duck has no forward bulkhead, therefore use of a bouyancy bag is strongly recommended.

Wood Duck 10

The Wood Duck 10 will carry paddlers who weigh up to 200 pounds and still have a good turn of speed.

Wood Duck 12

The Wood Duck 12 will carry more load.

Wood Duck 14

The 14 is for those who need the space in the cockpit for a toddler. It is also an amazing platform for serious fishing.

Wood Duck Double

The Wood Duck Double will take two average adults. Like all of the Wood Ducks, the Wood Duck Double paddles fast and with little resistance. Stability is sufficient for stepping down from a low dock — always a great test of stability.

Wood Duckling

A good child's kayak must have three things: Excellent performance (so they don't get bored), a wide range of capacity (enough to absorb several big growth spurts), and fast and easy construction (so they can finish the project before they leave home). The Wood Duckling's small size gives up nothing in sophistication or good looks. Obviously this isn't a kayak for sprinting, but the Wood Duckling will coast alongside the others in the range with little effort. It's got plenty of stability and the dry, water-shedding deck will keep them paddling well into the Autumn.

The Wood Duckling will accommodate children from 35 lb to 7st. At only 22 lb completed and rigged, this is a kayak that the little ones can manage on the beach, too!

The kits comprise:

Pre-cut wooden panels with pre-cut joints and pre-drilled tie holes
Epoxy Resin
Epoxy Activator
Epoxy Fillers
Copper Ties
Woven Glass Fabric
Fabric Covered Foam Seat
Backband
Adjustable Footbraces
Construction manual
Free technical support from a competent builder

A Wood duck is an ideal first boat building project.

What is in a boat kit.

Plans and Manual (Not required by kit purchasers)

These plans and manual contain sufficient information on the cutting of the panels to make it possible to build the boat from scratch rather than a kit. The plans include full sized templates.

Wood

This option contains the solid wood and plywood components pre-cut to the correct size with pre-cut joints, plus the construction manual. It does not contain the plans (these are not required because the wood is pre-cut), any of the epoxy to glue and coat the boat, the fabric or tape nor any of the hardware or rigging.