: Yea, I need to design a small double someday. The tricky part of adapting a
: single to a double is making the deck work out right. The step down from
: the front to the back of the cockpit doesn't happen right for a double.
: I'm adapting the Night Heron to a double for a customer now and I am
: spending an inordinant amount of time trying to create a reasonable deck
: configuration.

I think the toughest thing would probably be creating the forms beforehand, and trying to figure out how they'll fit two paddlers best.

I would imagine if you were willing to build and glass the hull first, then hot glue or clamp in temporary deck forms, you could fit the deck to the hull (and two paddlers) quite a bit easier.

: One option would be to take my Fast Double and shrink it down to a more
: reasonable length, but it might not have the volume needed, but it could
: probably be fudged to work.

: That said, it is not impossible to adapt a double to a single, you just need
: to be prepared to do a lot of work to make the deck right.