I'm lining up my Winter building projects, and one is Sea Kayaker Magazine's S&G Greenland kayak. The cumulative effect of a few factors led me to decide to build this boat: I had the plans (a good starting point), I had never tried building an S&G, I have a friend who would like to build one, but is a little apprehensive about building, I thought I could build one cheaply (and hopefully without endangering myself or a family member with the result), but final straw was when I saw one at this year's Newfound Rendezvous. A builder had one there (unfortunately, I didn't meet him), and it had a white, painted finish that made it look as if it were a glass boat. The retractable skeg and recessed deck fittings were done quite nicely, and I commend its builder on an entirely beautiful execution. That boat clinched it; I had to build one. Having never paddled one, those may be weak reasons, but who cares, I'll have fun building one anyway.

Which leads me to ask a couple questions: Is the builder of that boat a part of this BBS? What kind of paint did you use? Can any builders of this boat descibe its handling (or any comments on the boat in general)?

I bought my cheapo luan on Saturday and cutout the panels (using corrected dimensions, of course). I don't know if I'll be able to build the Wee Lassie II and the S&G simultaneously, but at least I'll have the panels ready to go when there's snow on the ground.

Ross