Contact
Contact me here: GentryCustomBoats@yahoo.com
I'm on Facebook - and I often post my boat photos, updates, and builder's photos there.
https://www.facebook.com/dave.gentry.14Listen to my NPR interview - ME!
Sources
All of our plans and kits come with a list of materials and sources, of course.
- Fabric - Email George Dyson: GDyson@Gmail.com. Here is George's list of fabric offerings, with descriptions: Material Notes. Mr Dyson is a noted author and modern Baidarka pioneer, and he supplies fabric for SOF builders all over the world. Tell him I sent you and what you are building.
- Sails -Really Simple Sails RSS carries supplies sails for my designs, and has great service and prices.
- Duckworks Boat Builder's Supply -Duckworks All sorts of boating gear, hardware, fasteners, epoxy, sailcloth, et. Also with great service and prices.
Personal Favorites
- Mik Storer designs well thought out plywood boats: Storer
- Eric Friberg - a superb wooden boat builder on the West coast of the USA. Specializing in (but not limited to) traditionally constructed Scandinavian boats. Email him at: boatfriberg@yahoo.com
- Tom Yost is a prolific kayak designer and builder and his boats were where I got started in SOF. Yostwerks
- Sadly gone now, Philip C. Bolger was a designer with an uncommonly open mind. HERE and HERE
- The late Thomas Firth Jones was a sailor, boatbuilder, designer,and an excellent author JonesBoats
Education
- The Wooden Boat School, in Brooklin, Maine (USA). I formerly taught boat building and sailing classes there in the summers. WBS
- The Florida Maritime Museum, in Cortez, FL - FMM I taught boat building here, too. A nice little museum.
- "Messing About in Boats." Always a good read MAIB
- The Traditional Small Craft Association. TSCA
- Great building info to be had, here:
- The Kayak Builders Forum KBF
- The Greenland Kayak Forum QUSA
- The WoodenBoat Forum WBF
- Here's a link to Mike Bielski's article "It's a qajaq, part 2" (pp42) - an excellent overview of SOF skinning and coating options. QAJAQ