Please take my comments lightly as they are intended. I suppose it would do you more good if I tried to be helpfull. I've had experience with Guillemot (Nick Schade) plans and David Hazens' canoe plans. Nicks' were $75 (offsets for three (3) boats are free in his book), Davids' were free with his $20 book. Davids' were all overlapped on a couple sheets, each form had to be traced from these. Nicks' plans are all seperate, simple cut out and glue to the wood. They also have several reference lines on them to help in aligning the forms. (Davids' do not) I've also build from Nicks' book use the offsets for the Great Auk. I enter the numbers into a CADD program to create the form patterns. You could also do this manually, known as lofting. A daunting task for a first timer, but not immpossible. For the time and effort involved I will by plans for future boats, as I have done for the Night Heron I am currently building. Also I would strongly reccommend buying Nicks' book or another on strip building. Below is a link to Nicks' kayak comparison page. I hope this has been a little help.
Jerry Siegel