Hi Greg,

I am currently building a Redfish Return. One thing which sold me on a Redfish kayak is Joe's artistic designs and his level of support. He is awesome in terms of answering questions when you run into a problem. I didn't paddle a Return before I bought the plans. I got some feedback from Mike Hanks and others which considered the Return a good design. I had the opportunity to paddle a Return twice by now. It has a lower initial stability that most other kayaks (regular fiberglass stuff such as current design,..) which is nice for turning the boat without leaning too much. I think that it will be a good kayak to grow into. I working currently on the deck. The boat is entirely stapleless and use only handbeveled strips.

I suggest that you should also look at the Outer Island. It looks also like a good design and there are a number of people building it on this board. Seems to be a great kayak for rolling. (I haven't tried to roll the Return yet.)

The One Ocean Kayak Cape Ann Expedition is the third kayak in this category of long and fairly narrow kayaks. I have not seen any comments on it.

Andreas

: Howdy, folks-I'm planning to build a stripper in the near future and have
: narrowed the choices down to the Redfish Return or the One Ocean Kayak
: Cape Ann Expedition. I'm in need of some information regarding the speed,
: handling characteristics and capacity of each boat. For reference, I'm
: 5'9", 200 lb. Can anybody out there enlighten me?