In regards to your Guillemot question, here is a link to and fragment of recent post by Kurt Maurer(Guillemot owner)

http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi/noframes/read/171731

>>I had a Guillemot and the OHP.
>>You couldn't even think straight in the former,
>>and the latter require shifting the Earth under it to make course adjustments.

: A newbie question.

: The itch to build a strip kayak just won't go away but I am having trouble
: deciding on which design to build. I currently paddle a fiberglass Arctic
: Hawk with which I have a definite love/hate relationship. My first problem
: is that I don't seem to fit the boat. I am 6'2" and I have never felt
: that I had enough room for my knees. The Arctic Hawk just isn't a terribly
: comfortable boat for me to paddle over any sort of distance.

: My second issue with the Arctic Hawk is weathercocking. I am always having to
: shift my paddle and cock a hip to keep the boat anywhere close to across
: the wind which with time gets annoying. (The boat does not have a skeg.)

: I have been looking at the Guillemot "L" which may give my knees
: the room they need. I have seen the Guillemots described as "loose
: tracking". Not entirely sure what that means but it sounds worrisome.
: I like a boat which goes the direction that it is pointed.

: Do the Guillemots weathercock? I understand the problem with lee-cocking and
: that a bit of weather helm is not a bad thing, nevertheless I am tired of
: fighting not to go to weather.

: Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.