: Hi all,

: I am new on this forum. Usually I build bicycles and model
: aircraft, but now I am contemplating a seakayak.
: My current boat is a Wilderness systems Tempest Pro 170, A nice
: manouverable able rough water boat . On my flat water training
: paddle I run into the limitations of the hull speed, it just
: will not go much over 5.5 knot, whatever I do for it. That
: started me thinking about a S&G boat. Strip planking is to
: much work.
: Some requirements:
: -Fast
: -Not extremely tippy
: -Good secondary stability
: -easily rolled
: -Footroom for size 12 and up
: -Suitable for rough water and surfing on larger waves

: Using the lines of the Epic 18 I did some work on a design in
: Delftship. The design will need a rudder, but that is not drawn.

: Some specs:
: Design length 5.500 m
: Beam over all 0.547 m
: Displaced volume 0.135 m3
: Beam on waterline 0.499 m
: Total length of submerged body 5.442 m
: Waterplane area 1.699 m^2
: Total beam of submerged body 0.499 m
: Waterplane area 1.699 m^2
: Block coefficient 0.4604�
: Waterplane coefficient 0.6264�
: Prismatic coefficient 0.5910�
: Waterplane center of floatation 2.653

: Here a first picture.

: Knowing little about kayak design I would like to have some
: comments. What information do you need to judge the design?

: Greetings,

: Merijn

Actually a strip built boat isn't all that difficult to build. Maybe a bit more time consuming, but not "that" much more than other construction methods. Once the hull/deck is completed on either construction method the finishing work is very much the same and that takes most of the building time.

Bill H.