I did a design using Kayak Foundry, and started my build a few months ago. I finally got around to posting pictures to Picasa, and here is the link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/104074662672494774368/Kayak201120ft

The design is for a 20ft long kayak with good straight line speed and moderate stability. I live on a lake, and will store the yak on my dock, so the 20ft lenght is not a problem.

I just fininsh glassing the deck. Lots of fun so far. This is my first build, and my motto has become "perfect is the enemy of good". I found myself making a small flaw look worse rather than better when I fooled around with it to much. For instance, I hacked on the the forward edge of the hull so much that I ended up cutting the strips back about 8 inches and carving a block of cedar into an external stem. It actually came out OK, so I did it again on the deck. I basically tried for an subtle arrow motif on the deck. I put two strips of walnut as the king strips, and did a small glue lamination of cedar and walnut for the front stem. I also made a small triangle shape for the of the deck, along with a small external stem. The pictures show it failry well.

Comments welcome, but be nice -- as I am almost considering this first build as practice for my next build..........

Bill VerSteeg