So... what do you want to know? Well, my name is Tim Gustafson. I'm originally from Silver Spring, MD, where my family still lives. I graduated from Williams College back in 1998 (go Ephs!). I built the kayak during my summer break from med school in 2000 when I was a couple years out of college. When I started, I had some amount of wood working experience mostly from just fooling around with tools and various projects but had never before built a kayak or any boat that was not made of pieces of trash found on the beach for that matter.