> Although still undecided about which strip-built kayak to build, I have
> Nick's book and happen to do CAD design work for a living, so I started
> plotting out the form points for a Guillemot. I used a spline function to
> make a nice smooth curve through all the points, and wondered: Are the
> chine points (the ones at a 70-deg. angle at a distance) supposed to fall
> on the sharpest point, or are they just additional points to aid in curve
> smoothing? A bunch of these points seem to be more on the bottom of the
> hull than on the chine.

> Doing this on my CAD workstation is kinda fun -- using the lofted curves I
> can surface the boat up, shade it, and spin it around in virtual 3D space
> on my monitor. Nice having access to a 36"-wide roll laser printer,
> too...

I would like to ask which CAD program you are using. I have Autocad 14 at work, with a 36" plotter. I am having trouble getting lofted curves into Autocad, and was wondering if maybe the program isn't suitable. Perhaps I should be using something like Mechanical Desktop? I'd be pleased to hear your suggestions. Thanks.