: I wonder how the cunningham/sea kayaker compares
: for that description of a low volume long skinny tern.

Yea, that's what I've got waiting in the wings -- for this winter, maybe, although I told myself I wouldn't build another kayak until I moved out of my second-floor apartment and into a house or condo. ('course, then I'd have less dough to spend on building kayaks, wouldn't I? ) I was thinking of making it a hybrid with a 3mm hull with a George-esque lay-up of multiple layers of 3-oz. inside and out, and a custom stripped mostly-flat deck. Maybe even play around with some light Kevlar on the inside. I'd like to shoot for less than the 37# weight of a comparable Betsie Bay kayak, but with increased strength and better looks -- BBK only tapes their inside seams...

Either that or a hybrid of a strip deck on a Seguin plywood hull, but I haven't seen many reports of Seguins being built. I guess I have more faith in Chris Cunningham's design because he took the dimensions off of his Greenland skin-on-frame kayaks.

Dean