: Define Najad, if you please.

Najad is one of Björn Thomassons designs www.thomassondesign.com
Björn is a very skilled kayakdesigner and a very skilled paddler too.
These two kayaks was built by two of the members in the studycircle, I was the so called teacher, master or mentor. They all did their best and a large bit more and the circle ended up with 7 strippers and 1 S´n´G. Mint pieces!
Najad is a long sleek kayak 5.80 x 0.55 meters. This two weights in at about 23-25 kilos.

: Engenius design...looks like you based it somewhat on the floor mounted one
: in Nick Schade's book (figure 9-13, page 150, "The Strip Built Sea
: Kayak"),
Yes, that was one source of inspiration, like one construction from Australia (just now I forgot his name, sorry, I´ll find it later) that was floormounted.

: Richard, you finished the interior of that boat to perfection...
Not me, Bert did this job! The other Najad-builder was Bertil.
I wish the
: deck "exterior" of my boat looked as clean....you can imagine
: what the interior is like...but...but...I had my reasons (not to be
: confused with excuses)!

: Nice use of contrasting wood on the face of that "contraption".

The pedals are reused from the cockpit-cutout. They are fastened with a stainless hinge and held upright by a little bungycordpiece behind. The white-blue cord is the rudder-lines.

Richard