The wheel is back on the bike and depending on the weather tomorrow morning I will ride it to work in the morning. Unfortunately I had a short period of time just after I posted the original post that I wasn't able to ride the bike so I sent off the wheel to be rebuilt with the 12g spokes. In the mean time I did read the replies last week about the tandem wheel. I will give the 12g spokes a chance and update with what I find. If it doesn't work out I will get a tandem style wheel. I don't think is should be too hard to find one with a disk hub.
Thanks again for the replies and I will update on how the 12g spokes are working out.