: With many Thanks to the Board. I launched my first SOF today
: It is a Greenland from Robert Morris' book.
: It doesn't have much initial stability but real good secondary.

Great! How does it feel to you? Too tender at first, or fun?!

: I tried to follow the instructions but I did make some mistakes.The foot
: brace is too far forward

Easy fix, like Craig said.

:and the depth to shear is about 2 1/2 " too
: much.I weigh 180 and I bet I could put another 180 lbs in and still have
: lots of freeboard!!

Bummer...well, at the costs you're able to build for, you can easily build a second playboat, and have this one for tripping.

: Aside from this its a blast to paddle.

: The cost to build was unbelievable, wood $35 ,canvas $27 1/2 gal latex paint
: free. Thats it and even Can. dollars.!!!

Too cool! That's like $40 US!!

: The biggest suprise was using latex paint. The wrinkles in the canvas
: virtually disappeared before my eyes.

That's great to know, too.

Happy paddling!

Shawn