> this is for a flatwater/a little whitewater practice squirt boat. made
> with 3 mm luane. 6 oz. fibre glass ___ deck wood ___ polly ___ boat middle
> ___ polly with tape in places ___ 6 oz. glass with tape on all seams...

> The tape will go under the full sheet covers... and I will put some
> reinforcment in the cockpit area.

> I included a cross section of my boat just so you know what it's like. u
> may call me crazy for this but hey it's worth a try.

I think your design is great. I like how the side pcs change orientation to make more acute angles to ea other in the ends to provide more ability to cartwheel. You see these sharp corners in playboats (X,XXX,Z,glide,slice,grind,etc) not so sure about squirts(look v. acute in the pics), but the logic would hold.

Carefull about carrying the foot tunnels to the extreme front. You need to have as much drainage from the deck as possible(yet keeping the volume down). I can't comment much about the rocker, but from flatwater playboat experience, you do like to have the bow above the waterline - so my guess is that you have it at a pretty good location.

Don't know much about layup, but would assume poly everywhere on the i/s (maybe 2lyrs) w/ the glass on the o/s. Pillars are an absolute essential (absolute) part of the structure of the yak. Seams must be strong. Shear clamp pcs betw the 2sides, as in the other post.

I don't know enouth about the ergonomics of fitting into squirt boats, but you may need to do a little thinking or modeling of entering and exiting.

All in all, I am just totally impresssed that a 15 yr old person has the interest, the gumption, the initiative to go ahead and design and use a new program to do what you have. Go for it!

-mick