Jarvis Journal

Building your own wooden kayak using the stitch and glue method is incredibly easy and can be done by anyone at any skill level. If you purchase a full kayak kit from our website vs just buying the kayak plans, the process becomes even easier as no machining, sou...

If you’re like most people when it comes to purchasing a kayak, you think of going online or to a store and buying a plastic kayak. Purchasing or certainly not building a wooden kayak has not crossed your mind. Building a wooden kayak is too ...

Several thousand years ago the Inuit started building kayaks as a means for transportation and hunting in the Arctic. Kayaks move silently and are agile in the water which enabled the Inuit to sneak up on prey and hunt caribou, whale, walrus ...

DIY wooden kayaks are just around the corner.  Sign up to save hundreds and to be the first to to know when they launch.   - No machining, sourcing, or milling, of woo...

Have you every dreamed of building a wooden paddle board? Maybe you are just curious how hollow core paddle boards and wooden surfboards are made. Look no further, You've come to the right pace for wooden paddle board plans and pdfs. Jarvis Boards offers free paddle board g...

The Jarvis Boards reviews are in! Builders across the country and around the world love making our wood paddle board kits. See some of the hollow core wood paddle boards made by builders using our Jarvis Boards kits. While some builders started with our hollow wood frames, ...

The last few weeks have been tough. Like many Americans across the country we've been shut in and hunkered down unable to work in our studio to create new boards. While we haven't been in the studio building, one bright spot is seeing everyone else using this time to make m...

Have you ever dreamed of paddle boarding along the California coast? How about a paddle board road trip? While most of our time at Jarvis Boards is spent helping others create DIY paddle boards Read more