I've spent some time today reading my copy of Morris' book (Cunningham's and Starr's will be read tomorrow - and a 4th book when it arrives at the bookstore...)

Based on the info in Morris' book, my boat should be 15 feet long and if I use two fists 22" wide. Should look like a short tug boat. LMAO

just for fun I used KayakFoundry with those dimensions and keep getting mostly red lines (displacement shortcomings) for the form profiles, unless I drop the paddler weight from my current 180 # down to 150#. Not gonna happen. I've just lost 40+ pounds and I should be able to get down another 10 to 180. I *MIGHT* be able to get down to 170. 150 is OUT of the question.

My question - how accurate is the KayakFoundry in it's displacement representations? I know I'm curiously (amusingly?) assembled, but hopefully not so much that I can't keep a boat afloat! LOL.

Jamie