Yup'ik Kayak Model

Laser cut the pieces out of plywood.

The files attached have 2 pages to ‘print’, in alignment:

–       One with numbering to make it easier to find the right pieces that can be engraved or scored (a 100% speed laser cut with less than 50% power)

–       Second with the actual pieces

Organize and glue your pieces, referencing the attached vocabulary poster:

–       3 boat shaped pieces – the gunwales. Glue them like a sandwich with the ones with notches on the top and bottom, full one in the middle.

Make sure that the numbers and letters remain visible, and your fronts and backs are aligned!

–        2 bow pieces, the front of the kayak

–       2 stern pieces, the back

–       4 pairs of sticks – stringers – we’ll use them later

Glue together the bow pieces. You will notice that one of them is longer – this is to create overlap to connect the stern pieces, also glued together and with one longer beam.

Make sure the notches in the deck stringer (upper beam) and keelson (lower beam) are very well aligned!

Otherwise it will be hard to fit ribs and deck beams into them. 

–       2 rings for the cockpit coaming

–       2 paddle pieces

–       4 stanchion pieces, marked with letter F

Glue the rings and paddles together.

Sandwich a longer and shorter F piece and glue them together, aligned at the bottom. The broader top should create a ledge, on top of which the cockpit coaming will sit.

Repeat with the other pair. 

–       19×2 ribs, that will shape the hull, numbered 1-19

–       10×2 deck beams, letters A-K