: How about a baidarka. I built a version of the Lowie Museum kayak
: LM2-14886
: Plans here:
: http://www.arctickayaks.com/Lines/LinesAleutLM2-14886-18.pdf
: My mods were to up the deck by an inch or two and to kick the side
: chines out a bit to to give more stability.
: Pics of mine here:
: http://dbynoe.blogspot.com/search/label/Sage
: She is not bad for speed, cruises loaded easily at about 4.5 knots,
: and can sprint up to 5.5-6 with a bit of enthusiasm (she pushes
: up a pretty damn big bow wave at that point) and I have like
: zero arm strength.
: I am 6'1" but pretty scrawny at 180 or so and find the boat
: tippy until I add about 20-30lbs of ballast (I use water). The
: more shes loaded the better she handles. Will a full load of
: camping gear I can take pretty big white caps broad side with no
: worries.

Wow David; that is a really fine looking kayak! I'd love to put something together like that one day, but I'm on limited time to get one built and was thinking more along the lines of a fuselage stle to speed things up. I should have mentioned that in my original post, but it seemed like I'd already typed too much. Again....great looking Kayak and interesting work on the hatches. I'll have fun looking at your site further.