: Looks great.

: Traditional SOF boats were built to flex gracefully. If a boat is going to
: flex it needs to be built to handle it. Since your boat uses glued joints,
: if it were to flex you would start breaking your joints. I would use the
: Kevlar to limit the flexing to minimum. Even though the boat may feel
: quite rigid now, it probably has some motion. Try twisting it. The Kevlar
: will tie everything together and distribute the loads more evenly though
: out the boat. The skin will do this to some extent, but not as effectively
: as the roving. Besides, the roving looks cool.

Thanks for the comments. I will give it some more twisting etc once I get all the stringers on and the cockpit built. The decision doesn't have to be made pronto. I just thought I'd use my life line and poll the audience

BTW: I agree the roving does look cool, but I'm afraid I haven't "tested" that yet!

Bill