If you need more room for your legs you can look a the High Deck Night Heron. This boat has been widely admired for its beauty, with an example accepted in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, but that does not detract from its on the water performance where it is fast and efficient and surfs very easily.

Like the strip version of the Night Heron, this S&G version is at home out on the open water and exploring the shores of distant islands. As drawn, it has the exact same profile shape of the lower deck version of the strip-built Night Heron.

A hybrid version of the Night Heron, combining a stitch-and-glue hull with the beauty of a strip-built deck. This is a higher-decked version of the hybrid Night Heron, for taller paddlers who need more knee and leg room.

The Night Heron is a fast, attractive kayak by Guillemot Kayaks with a hint of Greenland styling. Plans are available for both wood strip and stitch and glue construction. I built the wood strip version and have been paddling it for five months.

Inspired by the highly functional kayaks developed by the Inuits of Greenland. Sleek and fast with overhanging ends and a raked cockpit. Includes the Petrel designs

Drawing on the lines of the original Inuit kayak builders, the Night Heron is a efficient and responsive sea kayak suitable for long distance touring and playing in rough water. The graceful elegant lines cut through the water in style.

Have you noticed all of those kayaks riding along atop cars and trucks on their way to waterborne adventures? Their owners have seen the light. These slender double-ended boats require little initial investment, not much maintenance, and can be put on the water in seconds.

Night Heron – Sapelle and Okoume Marine Plywood, Fiberglass & Epoxy Light, Rugged & Practical. Stitch and glue kayaks are made from precision-cut marine plywood. This allows them to be assembled relatively quickly. But Nick still puts as much care and consideration into making a beautiful, high performance kayak.

The stitch-and-glue Night Heron is a thoroughly modern plywood sea kayak that will appeal to athletic paddlers. It is based on the original strip-planked Night Heron but uses stitch-and-glue construction with distinctive puzzle-joints that fit together easily.

The Night Heron family differs from traditional Inuit designs by maintaining a full waterline shape out to the ends instead of the "pinched" ends that are characteristic of the skin on frame kayaks made by the Greenlanders.