: Yikes! Did I ever blow it big time!!! In fact, I made a totally and
: unforgiveably sexist assumption and do apologize. I'm ashamed to have done
: that. Please forgive me.

You made an understandable mistake. So far, I've only seen one website or posting in which a woman built a boat.

: Good on ya! I5t's get old chasing the scrapes. I like a image that Ron Pruden
: has of the underside of this yak scraped and gouged from launching from
: ice.

Yah, if the bottom (both inside and out) of my plastic yak is any indication, I'd better not get too hung up on appearance. I don't drag it over the ground like many do, and I enter my boat butt-first so I can rinse feet off, yet it sports a fine network of abrasions from only 2 years of use.

: Well, I have to make it every two days now. We have a displaced family in
: this house till they get resettled. They lost their house in the recent
: fires here in San Diego.

Ouch. Good of you to help them out. We have friends living in Scripps Ranch who had to evacuate (they're back home now). The only thing that saved their house was a swath of land that had been bulldozed for making new houses. A serendipitous firebreak for them. Good luck to them in their recouping!