I notice that there's not many actual reviews in this thread - were you soliciting reviews to be posted here, or were you anticipating people starting new threads ? I'll hold off reviewing anything until that's clear, but a quick look suggests that there is a "Review" prefix for topics of new posts, so I guess that's the way to do it...

I've built two boats (a 5/6 scale Great Auk sixteen years ago and and 94.5% scaled Cormorant thirteen years ago), and paddled a number of commercially built ones with which I can make comparisons. My main boat-to-abuse-on-rocks is a NorthShore Mistral, a design closely based on Mike Nelson's original Shoreline design from the early days of commercial sea kayak construction. I've also just acquired (and am restoring/modifying) and classic 1970's Nordkapp which I intend to survey and base a new design upon. Bit early to review that ...