Hi everybody, new to the forums and to Kayaking, been reading here for a while now. Tonight I took the family out for a paddle with a local tour company, I think it is safe to say we are all hooked and I have been itching to build a strip build for a while now. So I think it is now going to happen. So we live in Nova Scotia and close to a lake so we will be doing some Lake day trips, but also some ocean day trips. My son and I will most likely be doing some camping trips so I need some room for gear. He paddled for a summer at a rowing club but didn't want to do it competitively, the rest of us this was our first time in kayaks but we loved it so that is the back ground.

Anyway, what I need some advice on is the kayaks to build, yea I will most likely be building more then one anyway. I am 6'1" about 230 and my oldest son is about the same size. For us I was think about the Night Heron high deck, from the description I figured that would be the best ones since he has size 11 feet and with our size. For my wife, I am not sure which one I should look at building, the Great Auk or the Guillemot. She is about 5'8" but not a strong paddler, yet, so which should I look at doing for her?

So you can see I have my winter full now building at least two boats, may be 3 but we shall see what the first two turn out like. I was also thinking about the Guillemot Double but we shall see.

Cheers!!

Pat