I have been working on a wooden version of this for a while now. Solo skiff is a very specific boat, that you can't just throw out any small wooden craft and say "what about this". For instance it has to be unsinkable and unfloodable to allow you to run it to the kinds of place you probably shouldn't, but people with these boats do. It has to be a tactical poling skiff, but from a central poling position, which has significant impacts on the shape of the boat. It just goes on and on. In my case, I knew I would be heavier than the average person for whom this boat is designed so I upped the displacement a little.
I heard a podcast from the designer, and I had been down an identical path, experimenting with all manner of other fly fishing boats. I was half heartedly considering the latest fad the SUP for fly fishing. Solo skiff looked like a better idea.
Building skiffs like this in wood is nasty as the moment you have to have a full length deck, rather than the efficiency of standing an a 1/4" of marine ply supported by water, it just gets so complicated... You can see the balsa core deck insert ready to be bonded in.
I have a second design in mind that will be Bolger simple, though the raised deck will complicate somewhat.
Bateau has several plans out now.