I built it out of 4mm Keruing/meranti marine plywood and weigh slightly above 15kg as a 3-piece sectional kayak with 40mm freeboard reduction.

Three part Shrike.

Built by father and son team on the Isle of Mull at the Archipelago Folk School.

Six Shrikes built during a weeklong workshop.

3-Part standard Shrike

3 part sectional Shrike.

Ilya's second Shrike

Shrike flat-top 1)No moving skeg. Instead of that I made a metal skeg, and with that I can turn either side if I need (manually) and it helps me to go in a straight line. I am able to achieve a maximum speed of 10Km/h, (not cruising speed). 2)To make it easier to...

Which model Shrike did choose? Standard Shrike with a keyhole cockpit with topsides lowered ~35 mm What modifications, if any, did you make to the design described in the build manual? Built without a skeg to reduce the total weight. I'll mostly use the kayak on...

We (my son and I, unexperienced kayak builders) enjoyed building the Shrike enormously, it took us a week and - since my son's holiday was over, some extra weekends to finish the job. We added three hatches, of which only one is visible. For the cockpit we used a...

Which model Shrike did choose? What modifications, if any, did you make to the design described in the build manual? What is the weight of the finished kayak? Anything you wished you had done differently? Any tips you’d like to suggest to future builders? How does the...

Which model Shrike did choose? What modifications, if any, did you make to the design described in the build manual? What is the weight of the finished kayak? Anything you wished you had done differently? Any tips you’d like to suggest to future builders? How does the...