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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Becoming One with Nature [Watch (HLS stream): Becoming One with Nature](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PxhSNuH7.m3u8) (3:02)  _Published 2014-06-13. Taking the properties of nature into account, Nick Schade is making modern-day kayaks that hearken back to another time._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:50 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Signs of Nature](/video/CjKMRwSx/) ### Signs of Nature [The Nature of Stock Markets](/video/FNyA7mBI/) ### The Nature of Stock Markets [Waitukaitis et al, courtesy of Nature](/video/vr43ePMF/) ### Waitukaitis et al, courtesy of Nature --- ## Transcript I think you can't help but have a special connection with any product you make yourself. This hundreds of hours going into the boat, its part of me when its finished. [ MUSIC ] The reason I love kayaking is just being out on the water with nature as part of nature. With a motor boat, all the noise, you're excluding nature from the experience. With the kayak, it's silent. You're one with it. I grew up with canoes and kayaks. And when I got out of college, I needed a boat but couldn't afford one. So, drew something up on my parents' living room floor and built it. I like to use wood to build my boats. It allows me a lot of design freedom so every boat can be individualized. And wood just visually has something going that attracts the eye. [ MUSIC ] The original kayak designers were the Inuits of [ MUSIC ] the Arctic. Their ideas still influence a lot of my design. The wood hearkens back to the original kayaks, but what I'm doing is really a modern composite material. As opposed to seal skin on driftwood. When the customer comes in, I first ask them a bunch of questions about what they imagine themselves doing with the boat. I can customize it 100 % for a customer. My design philosophy is trying to make a boat that performs well on the water. And that can be a variety of things. It can be speed, or it can be surfing on a wave. It's the performance of the boat over aesthetics, but aesthetics is definitely part of it. I feel what looks good to the water looks good to the eye. I don't feel that I am an artist. I do still consider myself an engineer. But I feel that what I am creating has a lot of art to it. Might start with a few sketches. Then I go onto the computer and start to the sculpting, the design. I'll start by trying to get the performance I want out of it first. And that'll go a long way to describing aesthetic. [ MUSIC ] You know, I've thought about taking some of the skills I've developed and creating furniture or something. But there's something about boats. A chair just sits there. A boat will take you places. I love all aspects of what I do. I love just sitting there designing it. 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