Klickitat by White Salmon Boat Works: specs and plans

Klickitat

The Klickitat is Ray Klebba's 17 ft by 30 in canoe for paddlers who want speed and stability on long trips. She has a shallow arch hull with flare and no rocker at all, so she tracks hard and holds her pace with a load aboard, and Klebba credits her with good manoeuvrability for all that.

The design page is brief and gives no weight, depth or capacity, so a builder comparing options will learn more from the plans themselves than from the description. Like the rest of the White Salmon Boat Works fleet she is a cedar strip canoe, sold as full size plans or as a basic or complete kit from the shop in White Salmon, Washington, which also runs building workshops for its designs.

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