Thanks re the blog - hope to get it more active in the near future. This place (Newfoundland) is so incredibly beautiful that there's really no excuse for not doing it...

Re the VOLKSKAYAK - Nova Scotia's Gerry Gladwin designed the VK to be a capable sea kayak to be home-built by folks with limited skills, tools, time and money. It is 17' LOA, 25" beam (we mod to 23"), fore-and-aft bulkheads, weighs 40-45 lbs. Uses 4mm marine ply/epoxy stitch-and-glue construction technique. If there's a simpler way to build a good coastal cruising sea kayak, I haven't seen it...my first VK, the RightWind, is now ten years old, and part from some cosmetic touchups over the years, it hasn't needed a lick of repair...

If you want to see the pinnacle of painted VK art, check out the KatYak on the second page of Ballyhack Point...