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Kayaks are sheltered water fishing crafts. They build kayaks for open water, but they have small cockpits that cover your knees to keep you in when you get rolled, round chines to let you eskimo roll back up without needing to drop out, and usually more length than 14 ft.
Open cockpit kayaks are more stable, but a large open cockpit like you have will ship water on all but the calmest days, so you need a skirt, and once you have a skirt on you can't get to the stuff you store in your cockpit to fish. Launching open cockpit kayaks through any kind of surf is a disaster waiting to happen.
On nice calm days or in sheltered bays you'd do fine, but if the wind comes up it gets hairy quick.
I have a small open cockpit kayak and have scared myself enough that I don't like using it on the ocean. I've also rolled and dropped out of kayaks playing in the Nauset surf decades ago and I can tell you that being in the water with a kayak full of water is no picnic.
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