Northern California: a beautiful place with awe-inspiring kayaking. To date, there’s been no skin-on-frame kayak workshops there. That’s all about to change.
April 24th to May 1st, we are offering a kayak-building workshop in conjunction with the Buckeye Primitive Skills Gathering in Forestville, CA. It’s a gorgeous place, on tribal land, and we’ll have the chance to talk about kayaks, native culture, and then take the boats out for a spin in real water.
Building a kayak in your 11/2008 Portland workshop was one of the best creative experiences of my life, so I encourage others to enroll. This is a project that could change your life. -Val Stricklin
Build what you will love to paddle. Register now and come home with a completed 17′ sea kayak and Greenland Paddle, made with your bare hands in the tradition of the northern pacific rim people. Tuition and materials are $1300 per boat.
In 2006 and 2007, Kiliii Yu of Seawolf and Brian Schulz from Cape Falcon began a unique project– The construction of a driftwood-framed kayak with hide covering. We finished it and skinned it traditional Greenland-style. The kayak Anqeti made the front cover of the November 2008 Bulletin of Primitive Technology.