Description: True North Boats, Ferndale
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At True North Boats we're driven by a passion for building the traditional skin-on-frame oceancraft of the far north. We create one-of-a-kind custom kayaks, teach skin boat building workshops, and are committed to helping traditional skin boat building thrive in the Native communities where it was originally invented and developed. We are deeply grateful to those Native peoples who are the rightful heirs and owners of this technology.
Builder-owner, Marc Daniels has been building, restoring, and paddling skin-on-frame sea kayaks and open skin boats since the 1980s, always pulled forward by a fascination for the traditional oceancraft of northern Native peoples. He believes that there was little that the ancient inventors of skin-on-frame boat technology didn’t understand about boat design and ocean dynamics, and that they incorporated this deep understanding into the vessels they trusted their lives to. In Alaska the intricate knowledg