Brewery Creek Small Boat Shop has moved!

My shop has moved from the tourist hotspot of Granville Island in the heart of Vancouver's West side, to the Bohemian East Vancouver arts community of 1000 Parker Street. I've traded concrete floors, walk-in access and a dock at the end of the street for 1,000 more square feet of shop space, unlimited electrical power, and an amazing array of creative neighbors in an antique wooden industrial building. I can now teach, produce kits and research and build boats for my next book all in the same space!

The core business of Brewery Creek Small Boat Shop remains instruction in traditional skin-on-frame kayak building. and students will continue to design and build their kayaks one at a time. I concentrate primarily on traditional Inuit and Yupic kayaks and canoes and in the application of skin-on-frame technology to other boats such as canoes and row boats.

My book Building Skin-on-Frame Boats, (now into its second printing) has generated a great deal of interest in traditional kayaks from as far away as Australia and Finland. I am now able to supply kits, individual boat components and raw materials to both novice and experienced builders choosing to construct their boats at home.

Brewery Creek Small Boat Shop is still a place where former students, home kayak builders and people who are intrigued by skin on frame kayaks are free to drop by. There's coffee and kayak conversation to be found at the benches, in the middle of the shavings, under the hanging kayaks.