(Blankibr) wrote in
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Mike,

Chesapeake Light Craft now sells an Arctic Hawk kit. You could make it
to whatever specs you want.

I imagine you could get them to sell you a coaming if that is all you
wanted, but it would be wood.

I'm not so sure about that. The Arctic Hawk kit is only available as a kit.
Mark Rogers (the designer) licensed the design to CLC but I heard that he
only wanted it available as a kit, and not sold as plans. The cockpit for
the CLC version might not even fit the cockpit for a glass version. The
Superior Kayaks wood version is not identical to the glass version. The
glass version is a half inch shorter and narrower.

Let me start by saying I'm not a wooden boat builder.

I have seen lots of people modify CLC's kits. I don't see why you couldn't
also modify the Hawk kit.


Mike,

Chesapeake Light Craft now sells an Arctic Hawk kit. You could make it
to whatever specs you want.

I imagine you could get them to sell you a coaming if that is all you
wanted, but it would be wood.

I'm not so sure about that. The Arctic Hawk kit is only available as a kit.
Mark Rogers (the designer) licensed the design to CLC but I heard that he
only wanted it available as a kit, and not sold as plans. The cockpit for
the CLC version might not even fit the cockpit for a glass version. The
Superior Kayaks wood version is not identical to the glass version. The
glass version is a half inch shorter and narrower.

(Blankibr) wrote in
:

Let me start by saying I'm not a wooden boat builder.

I have seen lots of people modify CLC's kits. I don't see why you
couldn't also modify the Hawk kit.

One could, however since it is a kit all the parts a pre-cut which means
that the only option is to cut them smaller than what you get in the kit. I
suppose one could scarf existing panels to make them larger but that would
require a significant amount of work.

In any case, we were talking about modifying the cockpit on a completed
composite version using the cockpit from a CLC kit. It would likely be just
as easy to trace the pattern of a larger cockpit from some other boat onto
butcher block paper then cut out a cockpit rim from that. There are also a
couple of sites out there which describe how to build a glass or carbon
fiber cockpit rim.