Last year, as I was home in summer I decided to use some of my free time to build a boat. I wanted it to be a small, lightweight and preferably folding or stacking boat as I would have to keep it at home in a bike shed. I had for a long time been fascinated by the geodesic airolite boats at gaboats.com, and I also very much liked the designs at woodenwidget.com. I found the Stasha design particularly interesting, with its combination of skin-on-frame construction and the ease of storage due to its nesting capability. The fact that it is described as “the worlds lightest nesting dinghy” also contributed to choosing this boat to build. So I bought the very-well written plans for it, then bought or ordered the materials needed and began building. It was a nice and interesting project which made me better in woodworking, and I also learnt some new techniques and how to use epoxy. Here are photos from the building process, and of the boat on the water.
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- A roll of dacron fabric and kevlar twine
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- Kevlar twine.
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- The boat on a bike trailer I built for it.
