How to Build a Lightweight Sea Kayak

This new video is all about building a Chesapeake 16 from parts pile to launch. Tackling the apparently abstract boatbuilding process is much easier after watching how easy it really is.

The video clarifies building any CLC kayak kit, not just the Chesapeake kayak family.

This extravaganza took shape last Spring when John Harris filmed a boatbuilding TV series for DIY Network.

SamZak Productions was in charge and they later offered to produce this video for CLC. "With the talented group at SamZak on board it all fell together," says John, and he went right to work on a script.

Next they had a Chesapeake 16 glue-a-thon: Andrew Wood, one of CLC's full-time boatbuilders, assembled 12 boats in record time. Each was finished to a different stage so they could jump from one step to the next.

The result is a clean, concise and watchable boatbuilding video. John composed the original soundtrack music. The detailed narrative is laced with humor, including the only known kayak Viking Funeral and a ubiquitous guy in a gorilla suit. We're not sure how they got on the set, but there they are.