: Thanks. I've already been that route, but I was unaware of the ice boat BBS.
: Lofting is more in tune with this group. Home builts are typically boxes.
: Comercial ones are sleek fiberglass shells ... like a kayak. I want a
: sleek home built. I have a couple plans, didn't like either, and proceeded
: to merge the designs into "my" prototype. Now I want to take it
: one step further and have somthing where I can sit inside out of the wind.
: If your interested, we can talk ice boats off line. However lofting should
: be of general interest to this group.

I think it's a great topic for this group; I was mainly trying to open up more resources. I see now that you know a lot on this topic already... I don't always get it right. What about carving a half-model? I think a 1/4 or 1/8 scale model could yield a good level of detail. One way to go anyhow.