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Beautiful • Lightweight • High Performance • Wood Strip, Canoes and Kayaks Aleut and Greenland inspired kayak designs Outstanding Classic Canoe designs reflecting their native heritage Tough • Functional • Wood-cored Fiberglass Boats Handcrafted Custom Finished Boats Featuring Building Plans and Kits for the home builder |
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If you love to paddle. These are the ultimate boats for you. My boats are extremely light-weight, and take very little energy to paddle. They respond quickly and handle unlike any boat you have ever paddled. Their beauty will move you, even when you are not on the water.
If you stalk solitude, or wildlife. If you paddle for adventure, or fitness. |
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Rob Macks designer/builder at Laughing Loon is the most innovative stripper designer in the world, pioneering modern stripper Baidarka designs and introducing, now standard strip building techniques, such as magnetic hatch covers, lightweight 3/16" strip use, hot-glue stapleless stripping, advanced transparent glass lay-ups, and heat gun strip bending. In the last 25 years Rob has built more than 100 boats using the strip building method. With that much experience he knows how to build the highest quality boats. He knows how to make the home builders experience fun and easy. Rob's a great teacher too! Photo below, Rob in Shooting Star kayak, Hendrick's Head, Maine. |
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I hope you can see my passion for Boatbuilding reflected in my designs
Designing and building these boats combines my deep love of the outdoors, especially water, my 66 years of experience in power boats, sail boats, wilderness canoeing, whitewater canoeing and sea kayaking, my training as an artist and sculptor, and my many years of metal, woodworking and design engineering. I am compelled to build these small wonderful boats. My hands guide every moment of creation from rough boards to gleaming varnish. I personally devote months to the creation of each finished boat. I'm proud to offer building plans for my designs and I receive photos and stories (my wife calls my love letters) from all over the world, from happy home builders. Home builders have consistently found my plans, instruction books and instructional DVDs provide them with all the information they need to have fun building. Building one of these boats is probably the largest project people will ever take on. The photos of the boats built by home builders on these pages and my Laughing Loon Facebook pages are amazing! I've built furniture, houses, jewelry and many things, but nothing has been more fun than building these boats. I think you will agree if you build one. |
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Laughing Loon tandem canoe
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the new kayak Magic |
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Why choose Laughing Loon designs and plans? Laughing Loon boat designs are outstanding. My designs have received awards at shows where the judges were boat builders. Laughing Loon finished boats are of the highest craftsmanship and quality. My building methods for the home builder are 3X easier than anyone else! See "Shop Tips" page for details. And, my building instruction book is the most thorough. |
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Laughing Loon Building Plans
I reveal dozens of tricks to make strip building easier, more than any books on strip building I've seen, and I've seen them all.
Let me guide you through the strip building process and you will have fun!
Wood strip building is easy enough for a beginner and yet is also the choice of professionals. A boat is created by gluing wood strips, edge to edge, over hull forms called stations. The wood hull is then covered, inside and out, with transparent layers of fiberglass and epoxy. This allows the beauty of the wood to show through. Wood-strip building produces a wood cored fiberglass boat. The fiberglass and epoxy layers on both sides of the wood core create a stress skin panel, which is very rigid and strong. Such a hull does not need internal ribs for strength and can be very lightweight.
"The wood strip method of building allows me to design and build boats with complex hull shapes. I don't have to compromise my hull design to the limitations of a less flexible building material or to the convenience of a manufacturing technique. All my designs use the wood-strip building method."
Rob Macks- designer / builder,
Laughing Loon Canoes & Kayaks
For a sampling of the information I provide to make strip building easier!
Go to my -Shop Tips , Stapleless Stripping -and -Transparent Lay-ups pages
