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Boats built:
Pygmy Tern 14, Fall 2000
http://www.pygmyboats.com/mall/arctic_tern_14.asp

Laughing Loon Shooting Star, Summer 2005
http://www.laughingloon.com/shootingstar.html

One Ocean Storm SLT, Summer 2007
http://www.oneoceankayaks.com/kayakpro/SLTtech.htm

Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 12 Hybrid, Summer 2009
http://www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/kayak-kits/wood-duck-12-hybrid-recreational-kayak-kit.html

Also own a Pygmy Coho, built by other hands and bought used on the BASK classifieds, Spring 2000. This was my first kayak; it hooked me on wooden boats and led directly to the Tern build, which then naturally led to the strippers.
http://www.pygmyboats.com/mall/coho.asp

I live in Piedmont, CA, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and paddle the Bay and coast with BASK (Bay Area Sea Kayakers: bask.org/), and also Lake Tahoe and Wright's Lake in the Sierras (see photo). I paddled the Laguna Beach coast pretty much all my life before that. Feel free to contact me if any of the above strikes a chord. Happy building, happier paddling.