I don't mind you changing the deck, after all it is your boat. When you modify the deck, you want to be careful that the surface stays "fair". It is usually easiest to have some mathematical transformation. It will be more likely to stay fair that way.

> I'm going (as son as I have finished my exams this semester) to build a
> Great Auk. I have bought "The strip-built sea kayak" by Nick
> Schade. And since I'm a poor student I have decided to not buy the
> complete plans. My question is if anything catastrophic happens if I make
> the deck a little more "flat"? I was thinking of making the deck
> horizontal at the middle. At the bow it will be almost as before, but in
> front of the cockpit it will consist of three "sections"
> (instead of two as it is orginaly). Anyone understand what I mean? :-) The
> intention is to get a deck that isn't quite so sharppointed. Another
> important question is if the guy who designed the kayak (Nick Schade)
> would mind if I do so...?

> Einar F Veland