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... | ![]() |
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: |
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
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The homepage button at the bottom of each page will bring you to the Douglastown Community Center homepage |
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