For the past month or so, I've working on a new kayak design for my almost 5 year old daughter. I'm working on four different designs and going to let her choose the one she wants. Each one is between 11 to 12 feet long, has a waterline length of around 10.5 feet and will have a max beam of about 15", designed with fairly high stability. They'll be for paddlers from 4-12 years old and 30 to 75 pounds. I'm designing them as strippers but will probably build hers this winter as a fuselage-style SOF.

* Androscoggin 12: Modeled to resemble a modern, high performance sea kayak
* Aziscohos 11: Our kid-size version of a post-1845 Alaskan baidarka
* Connecticut-12 (CT-12 for short): Based on our CT-18 East Greenlander (the LC-148 historical specimen was the basis for the design)
* SEA 11: We took our little rough water play boat and re-sized it for even smaller paddlers.

Below is a collage of the four designs (just rough at this stage). I need to work on the cockpits. Yes, my daughter wants a pink kayak. When I put the final versions on my website I'll use other colors. If you're interested in any of them I can offer you some free rough plans as my guinea pig!

Dan