{"id":23,"date":"2011-11-04T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T19:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2012-05-10T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:10:29","slug":"about-kudzu-craft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/about-kudzu-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"About Kudzu Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have loved the water since I was just a kid. I have also been fascinated with wooden boats for about as long. I still remember the first Chris Craft runabout I saw. We had moved the lake when I was 8 years old. We had one of the new fiberglass boats with a huge 40 HP outboard. It was one of the fastest outboards on the water at that time.<\/p>\n

One day a neighbor came roaring up the lake in his Mahogany inboard Cris Craft. \u00a0This was the first wooden boat I had ever seen and I instantly fell in love! That was the coolest boat I had ever seen!! \u00a0I have been in love with them ever since.<\/p>\n

I rebuilt a Chris Craft Sea Skiff, ‘Makin’ Waves’<\/em> in the 1980’s. Then I built a small DK-13 kayak that I really enjoyed but it was an awfully small boat. When I sold my lake house to a friend of mine, I gave him the kayak. I also sold my fiberglass sail boat with the intention of building a CS-21 just as soon as my shop was in order.<\/p>\n

After roughly 3 years of work, the house was finished and it was time to turn my attention to building my new boat. While planning the new sailboat I decided to build another kayak. The sailboat build would be a big project and would take a long time. A kayak would give me a chance to get out on the water while I worked the sail boat.<\/p>\n

The search for the ‘perfect’ kayak lead me to modify an existing design. That boat paddled so well that I decided to try my hand at another one.<\/p>\n

Of course a custom built\"\"<\/a>t Kayak needs a paddle. I wanted to try a Greenland style paddle so I built one, then another, and another. Then I read about hollow shaft Euro style paddles and wanted to try that. I got interested in Skin on Frame boats and read everything I could find on them. I tried my hand at designing one and built it, then another one. One thing lead to another and with the encouragement of some friends I started a business, Kudzu Craft.<\/p>\n

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