Video I shot at Canoecopia 2009 at the impressive pool demonstration by the Kraikers. They were demonstrating the Canadian style to solo canoe, which as you’ll see is one of the best ways to paddle a double canoe solo.

Canoecopia sale floor from above:

Description: The Siskiwit Bay MC  is all-around fast mid-sized British-style touring kayak designed for plywood building. This kayak suits a medium to heavy paddler looking for good initial stability and with increased flare above the waterline lots of secondary stability. As the water gets rougher, this kayak feels more stable. It’s a fast design slightly more efficient than most British kayaks in its class. Designed by Bryan Hansel.

Experimental: Since the Siskiwit Bay plans became available on the Internet, I’ve received requests for a plywood version of the kayak. The SB was originally designed as a multi-chined boat for plywood building using the excellent HULLS software. I’ve taken the original file and used Delftship Pro to clean it up and fair the lines. From this cleaned up original file, I’ve produced a dxf and a text file of offsets. These are available for plywood builders. A deck is included, but it is extremely experimental. The stems should also be rounded. Round the stems with a 2″ radius, but, please, contact me before you do this.

Note: I don’t know if it has been built yet.

Hydrostatics: Generated for 295 pounds, which is the number used for Sea Kayaker Magazine’s reviews. (195 pound paddler + 45 pound kayak + 55 pounds of gear).

Design Name: Siskiwit Bay MC

• Design length17.000ft
• Design beam1.757ft
• Design draft: 0.417ft
• Length on waterline: 14.908ft
• Beam on waterline: 1.649ft
• Displaced volume: 4.741ft3
• Wetted surface area: 21.075ft^2
• Displacement: 0.132tons
• Block coefficient: 0.3805
• Waterplane coefficient: 0.5243
• Prismatic coefficient: 0.4837
• Vert. prismatic coefficient: 0.7259
• Midship coefficient: 0.7868
• Longitudinal center of buoyancy: 7.878ft
• Longitudinal center of buoyancy: -4.171%
• Vertical center of buoyancy: 0.248ft
• Waterplane center of floatation: 8.000ft
• Entrance angle: 2.481Degr.
• Transverse moment of inertia: 2.431ft^4
• Longitudinal moment of inertia: 159.45ft^4
• Transverse metacentric height: 0.761ft
• Longitudinal metacentric height: 33.882ft
• Longitudinal center of effort: 7  .803ft
• Vertical center of effort: 0.233ft

KAPER: KAPER is a resistance program used by Sea Kayaker Magazine for their reviews. SK uses a weight of 250 pounds plus the weight of the kayak to calculate the resistance. It is provided here at the same weight for comparative purposes.

• 1 knot – 0.24
• 2 knots – 0.87
• 3 knots – 1.81
• 4 knots – 3.35
• 4.5 knots – 4.66
• 5 knots – 6.87

Drawings: Two formats are available. DXF and offsets in text.

• DXF developments
• Text offset developments