Michael, Thanks for the response. Your Rangely boat is one of the boats that eventually lead me to the wherry. The wherry (as I enlarged the drawing) ended up at 51". The length will be 13' thouhg I may yet stretch that some. That you used no ribs is definitely what I wanted to hear. Tom

: Tom: We build the Rangeley Lake boat based on John Gardner's offsets using
: cove and bead strips, two layers of 6 oz cloth outside, one layer inside,
: no ribs. The weight of the 15' version is about 90 lbs. This has a
: 46" beam; I'm not sure what the wherry has. I don't think you should
: have to increase the strip thickness (we use 1/4" x 3/4") unless
: you are building it to sail.

: Michael