: A friend who has paddled my Guillemot and my Silver now wants to build his
: own strip built kayak. Since he likes paddling in races, he is interested
: in buying plans for a sprint boat or a marathon boat. Not being a racer, I
: don't know if sprint and marathon are set design names or are very
: generic. The races that he paddles are 3-12 miles in water that ranges
: from completely flat to 1 foot chop, so he isn't interested in the
: extremely tippy Olympic style racing boats. Several of the races have
: portages in the middle, so the boat must be such that he can make a light
: weight version.

Nick paddled his Razor Bill design in the Blackburn Challenge this year...according to their web page he finished 8th out of 50 in the touring kayak class...maybe we could ask him to comment on what other designs he saw out there...and how fast is the Razor Bill ? Nick ?