It's time once again to let builders in the southern Calif. area know the date of the Spring Boat Builder's Forum at Southwind Kayak Center. The event will be held Saturday April 19th on the lawn in front of the store in Irvine Calif. "Bring your home-built kayak or canoe, in any stage of completion, and meet casually with other builders and their boats. Everyone shares the experiences, joys and pains of building their own. Just come to look and chat if you're contemplating building one. And perhaps join others to go paddling afterwords!" This is not a large event, it usually only goes for 3-4 hrs, but it seems that there must be quite a few builders of Strip, S&G, and SOF Kayaks and Canoes in the area that we should be able to get quite a good turnout for an event such as this. Hopefully Greg Bridges will bring out his new One Ocean Kayaks Double as well as his Guillemot Great Auk. I'm going to try and get my friend Arica to bring her Redfish Silver down for the event as well. With any kind of luck we will have the biggest turnout ever for one of the events. Hope to see you there.