O Six Hundred Kayak : Old Kayak Design with Futuristic Materials

O Six Hundred Kayak brings back 4,000 year old design with futuristic materials. You’ll find the result is awesome kayak, beautiful, tough, and light. This kayak comes in 30 parts where you can easily build it with your bare hands. The basic Inuit design hasn’t changed much since Bronze age, why? Because it works, that’s why. Now, the O Six Hundred Kayak team has improved it with modern materials where everything fits together and you don’t even need Allen key to construct it.

Each piece of the frame is cut with a precision CNC router, the hoop pine plywood is very strong and snaps together perfectly. The primary frame consists of 30 marine-ply ribs where cedar spines are stretched out to create amazing strength. This kayak weighs 10kg, it is lighter than a toddler, lifting it up shouldn’t be an issue here. Encased in translucent waterproof carbon fabric, riding this kayak, you can slide through the water effortlessly.

Designers : Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson

O Six Hundred Kayak by Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson

O Six Hundred Kayak by Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson

O Six Hundred Kayak by Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson

O Six Hundred Kayak by Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson

O Six Hundred Kayak by Ben Cooper and Andrew Simpson



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One thought on “O Six Hundred Kayak : Old Kayak Design with Futuristic Materials

  1. We have access to a CNC panel cutter. Would you please send a file for cutting out the ribs for building this kayak? Thank you for sharing.

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