Many of our boat wrights are former students of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. We recruit directly from traditional wooden boat building schools. Our typical wooden boat builder has gone through extensive training in fine wood working, wood working safety, wooden boat design and wooden boat construction.

With our skill and training we enjoy the results we achieve in building wooden kayaks. We are also the same people who provide support to guide you successfully through the building of your wood kayak kit.

We use traditional wood working techniques and tools, and focus on the custom craftsmanship that goes into creating your wood kayak. This process takes longer, but is the way we build every hand crafted wooden kayak. Most visitors to our wooden boat shop are suprised to find more hand tools than big power tools. The main hand tools we use are the same tools used for centuries to build wooden boats: chisels, block planes, rasps, wooden mallets and hand saws.