Thanks all!

The wood is mostly western red cedar with 1/8" maple accents on the sheer and water line and paddle park, with Peruvian walnut where the padeyes come out of as well as the thigh braces. I went to most of the Home Depots and Lowe's in the area and picked through the 1x's. I picked really dark boards for the sides and lighter boards for the deck and hull below the waterline. I stained everything using the staining technique Nick Schade shows on his Guillemot website including scraping off the stain from the Maple accents afterwards with a utility knife blade. I was pretty inspired by his minimal designs as well as Joe Greenley's. The stain is Behlen Solar Lux mahogany (light red I think), an alcohol based aniline dye.

I bought Nick Schade's paddle plans for the euro paddle, but ended up just using the offsets in his first book, decreasing them by a small % and using Illustrator to graph/print them out. I looked closely at the Cricket Designs website and made a 210 cm, 70 deg, hollow core paddle with cedar sandwiched between ash for the shaft and cedar for the blades, and built up the blade tips with layers of Dynel.

I have a couple more pics here:

http://www.eric-conrad.com/special