Opinions and comments eh? Ok, it still looks like a whitewater kayak to me. As in the needle ends and pretty extensive rocker. I think you will find you need a skeg or rudder to handle it out on large bodies of water. That or get comfortable with wasting a lot of paddle strokes trying to correct the errors from the previous stroke. I also suspect you will find yourself torpedoing into waves with that bow instead of rising up over them. I think it's going to be a very wet boat.

I don't understand your choice of lines from the end views. You've got a really curved deck (which I doubt ply would make, btw), and slab sides. It makes the boat look like it's almost upside down to me. I think if you flare the sides out a bit, as opposed to the verticle sides you have now, you would find the additional reserve stability and resulting lines quite pleasing.

Since you've mentioned eschewing any stability or hydraulic studies of this design, might I suggest you at least get the freeware version of Carene? It will give you a bit of info off the drawing itself.

> I listened to you guys' advice (a little) and added more volume
> in the bow area, and took out about 1-3/4 inches of rocker (mostly
> in the aft half). How am I doing? I show it with the bow a bit higher
> than the stern, but that's only what I'm hoping for, not necessarily
> what will end up working. It sort of "looks right" to me
> with the bow higher, although I've redrawn it with the bow and stern
> at the same level so that the strongback will be level. I'll put the
> new form drawing up after I finish it in the new orientation.

> Your comments are, as always, welcome.