1938 Peterborough PAL

We also repair and restore wooden and fiberglass boats. We can do simple re-railing of canoes to the full restoration of a 1938 Peterborough PAL sailing dinghy. We perform either authentic or functional restorations.

We can also reskin your traditionally built or fuselage-style skin-on-frame kayak.

An authentic restoration will try and bring the boat back to it’s original state using period materials, construction techniques and hardware.

A functional restoration make the boat usable and will modernize the boat using today’s materials and hardware.

With our experience crafting carbon fiber and Kevlar components for kayak, we also repair composite items.  In the summer of 2010 we repaired a Nelo Waterman K2 with a carbon fiber and Nomex honeycomb core.  It hit a submerged log at race speed.

For a price quote on your project just contact us.

Below are some previous projects from the portfolio:

2010 SOF Repair for Mary Ann

In the summer of 2010 Mary Ann approached us to restore her SOF. It was Willow Kayak's prototype of their Petrel design. A mouse family had made themselves comfortable and caused some minor damage. She had us reskin it using a tough multi-layer skin system using polypropylene fabric laminated to a base of heat-shrunk Dacron.

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