Lena and Danielle in their Coos 8 SOF's

If your child is old enough to paddle their own boat (usually at around 4 years old) and you wish they had their own kayak, we can build a kayaks that’s their size. It can be built using the wood strip core, fiberglass method (bright or painted) or skin-on-frame building method. There are very few commercially built kayaks for children. Ours can built built off of scaled down adult designs or from brand-new designs. Either way, they are designed with more initial and secondary stability to make your child’s paddling comfortable and not scary.

When outriggers are attached to the back deck of the kayak, children as young as 2 years old can an enjoy paddling their own kayak.  Until they are old enough to truly go out on their own, an adult should paddle next to them.

We can also build your child and appropriately sized kayak paddle.  Both traditional Greenland and modern “Euro” paddles are available.

Designs Available:

We have a total of five different designs.  They may look very different but have similar performance for their age group (more information coming!).

Ages 2 – 5

• Coos 8: A great little kayak to introduce your child to kayaking.  Comes with removable outriggers.

Ages 4-12

• Androscoggin 12: Modeled to resemble a modern, high performance sea kayak
• Aziscohos 12: Our kid size version of a post-1845 Alaskan baidarka
• Connecticut-12 (CT-12 for short):  Based on our CT-18 East Greenlander
• SEA 12: We took our little rough water play boat and re-sized it for even smaller paddlers.

Wood Strip, Clear Finished or Painted:

• Starting price for a 10-12ft long child sized wooden core, fiberglass kayak
• The same options are available as for the adult kayaks

Skin-on-Frame:

• Starting price for a 10-12ft long child sized kayak with wooden stringers on plywood frames
• Skinned with clear pvc or Dacron/fiberglass

Please contact us for pricing and to order.