Avoncraft

About 40 years ago a keen young paddler crossed the channel in 5 hours in a plywood kayak that he’d designed himself and built in his garden shed. At the time Percy Blandford was still selling thousands of plans for his P.B.K, wooden-framed canvas boats all around the world and Ken Littledyke was perfecting his ‘plywood and stitch’ system. Fibreglass was in its infancy and plastic for boats was just a pipe dream.