I guess you could say it's a design hybrid of sorts?
The story goes...
I saw a picture of a beautiful strip kayak on the internet and then the price tag that went along with it !!
After checking out more of these boats and the people who make them, I ran across Kfoundry. Being kind of a software junkie and a 3D draftsman/visualization guy by trade I couldn't help but mess around with the software, not thinking I'd ever actually build one (have never kayaked before, why would I).

After playing with the default boat in Kfoundry for a while I looked for .yak files via uTorrent (naughty naughty) to see what, if anything, was available to give me an idea what others were doing with it. Found a random file named "kayakplan.yak" downloaded it and started messing with that one... Changed things a little here and there, widened it out a bit, raised the deck a bit.. etc. Still not thinking I'd ever actually build one.

Quite a few months after first finding Kfoundry and stalking this forum and others, my wife was out of town for a long weekend and decided what the heck, I like projects, lets see how this goes! Plotted the stations and got to it. She looked at me like I'd lost my mind when she got home and I showed her the set-up... which took up her half of the garage :/ Honestly never thought I'd get this far but was obsessed pretty quick :)

So that's the story. Started with some one else's design, changed it a bit, got to it. This is what I ended up with.
At the time I didn't question the fact that I could be building an unusable boat by changing a design that I didn't know would work in the first place... Learned that after having the hull almost fully stripped and my wife got me Nick's book for my birthday.

I guess that's a big part of why I was pretty nervous to put it in the water. Thankfully I don't think I wastes the last 2 summers!
This is a better profile picture if anyone can maybe identify where it might have came from... I don't think I change it all that much really.

Bad thing is in the last 2 years (build time) my hard drive crashed and I lost the original Kfoundry file :(
Good thing is it floats and the wife doesn't think I'm nuts anymore. Now she talks about how she wants hers to look!

Sorry if that was long winded...

P.S. A fairly complete "build log" can be found here if at all interested:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1493951707496.2074319.1195143287&type=1&l=de4b96afaf
You don't have to be a my "friend" or even a Facebook user to check it out...