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During the spring, summer and early autumn of the year 2000 a group of 8 young adults got together to learn to build kayaks. This website is a photo album of their work and accomplishments.

 
The project was financed by Service Jeunesse Canada and was realized at the Douglas Community Center, Douglastown, Québec, Canada... Click on the logo to the right to go to the Youth Employment Strategy website...
  The kayak floating at the top of each webpage will bring you back to this kayak index page... homepage
a guided tour The canadian goose on each page will take you on a guided tour of boats and other photos of our kayak workshop... Click on any of the following webpages and follow the goose to continue the tour from there... Enjoy!
You can also navigate this website using the following list of page titles... Click and go!
Della's kayak on the beach Workshop photos
The workshop at the Douglastown Community Center Kayak frames in the workshop
Concentration and Precision Amelie's kayak stem details
Details near the cockpit Pat's rib mortices
Della's steam bent cockpit Greenland kayak frames on the beach
Lucie's Greenland kayak frame Marie-Eve tries her kayak frame on for size
Evan's plastic and duct tape trial run Sewing the canvas onto the frame
The first stitch is done Inside Amanda's kayak
Marc's Greenland kayak on the beach Marc on the water
Lucie's paddle More paddles
Evan's Retrieval kayak Daniel's Retrieval kayak
Pat's Retrieval kayak Chesapeeke Double
The Canoe mold Clinching canoe nails
The beautiful Canoe! The Sisters come to visit
René shows us his miniature kayak sculpture A Full Rainbow over the Bay of Gaspé
Marc's field floating frame  
   
   
   

You can read a few articles written about the kayak workshop in:
le Pharillon (français)
the SPEC (english)
le Journal de Québec (français)
(the full-size images of these articles means a slight wait for download, please be patient)

Anyone wishing to contact the participants in this kayak workshop may do so through the
Douglastown Community Center
by email or at 418-368-0288

  The homepage button at the bottom of each page will bring you to the Douglastown Community Center homepage

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