The deck is peaked. You may round it over if you choose. Just use a consistent method (such as a spline) for creating the curve to get a fair deck. Note that this will lower the deck, but there should still be enough room after rounding.

> I've been busily drawing forms for a Great Auk in my CAD program
> from the data in "The Strip-Build Kayak". The deck is coming
> out sharply peaked. I can't tell from the pictures. Is this 'peakedness'
> softened in the finished boat. My Pygmy Osprey has a sharply peaked
> deck and I'd like to go with another look-just for something different.
> Is it possible/reasonable/SAFE to, for each form, simply run a spline
> through the deck's peak to the first point on either side rather than
> the lines I'm using now, or am I better off leaving well enough alone?
>

> Just in case the designer is listening...I'm not questioning
> the 'rightness' of your Great Auk design, but rather appreciating
> the smooth flow of the deck in some of your later designs. :-)

> Brad