Not sure what happened to all the stuff I typed.

So, again, but much more abridged.

Eric Shade's Mersenger (sp?) is a Hybrid design, Also the CLC 17 ft boat should be easy to put a strip deck on, given that the deck is a simple radius. Any S&G with a High side panel, should be pretty easy to put a strip deck on, using a shear clamp.

I'm building a hybrid guillemot, you can check the building diary out at http://www.cadvision.com/tantonm/kayak/kayak.html. It's comming along well enough, the stripped deck is a little harder, as it has a compound radius, and I had to sorta Guess at the stripping stations for the deck. That was not to difficult, as I had Nick's S&G spacer stations to use, however I do kinda which I'd spent more time on setting them up, and putting some extra stations in place.

good luck

Myrl