Holy coolness, check out this hand built kayak made from saplings and $25 worth of hardware (most of which is the cost of the tarp that serves as the kayak’s skin). There are plenty of photos of the process to check out. Apparently it actually works pretty well and is really light. I’m very tempted to make one or two of these for when friends visit and just for the fun of actually putting something like this together. I wonder if I’d be legally liable when they crash into a rock going down the rapids on the sacandaga river near my house.