: 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

The 15' may be just the length of the gunwales? Did you add on another 1' or more for the stems, depending on how high/long you want your sheer? Also, you can just shorten the beam and add on to the gunwale to make up for volume.

Just .02 worth. Don't know anything about the "kayakfoundry."