My West Greenland Kayak: Tuilik

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Tuilik

If I'm going to be able to roll the qayaq, I'll need one of these: a Tuilik. The Chris Cunningham book, Building the Greenland Kayak, has plans for sewing your own. There are several companies that make Gore-TeX or neoprene tuiliks, but they are quite expensive. This should keep the water out, and is roomy enough to wear insulating layers underneath if I start doing cold weather paddling.


Coated nylon tuilik

The pattern is from the Cunningham book.

Hood attached to body

All done, except for seam-sealing

Hood pulled tight around the face

Currently?

This should no longer be title MY West Greenland Kayak.
I'm have now followed through on building another boat with a student, and worked from both the Chris Cunningham book and the Robert Morris book, the inspiration for the first boat.

It came out great. As usual, there are a few tweaks and things I would do differently, but this is better than the first. Hats off to the Skin Boat School as well for their instructional tutorials.

A new, narrower qayaq is in the works, seen here, though a ways from being finished.

I did sew my own Tuilik, and have the basic Greenland roll down, though I'm working on other rolls, too