: If you're a serious kayaker you should avoid making your boats too
: beautiful. Why you ask? It's the crowds, they all want to gawk
: and ask how long it took and do you make custom boats etc. You
: just can't be rude (or more accurately, you just can't resist
: stopping to talk about it) so boats like these take ages just to
: get them into the water! And even when you take it out of the
: water hordes of lovely young ladies will rush up to admire it!
: You've been warned!

He can always paint it in a few months, maybe add a bunch of random paddling stickers too. ;)

GREAT looking kayak, congratulations and have fun on the water.
Cheers,
Bryan