That is a great looking kayak.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite to next year's Meet at the Beach in Holland, Michigan. It is the first Saturday of June at the State Park.

: 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...