Zanks Eric!

Great input. I really didn't realize just how narrow and concave I had made the bow until I scanned the pic, and got to sit back and look at it rather than having my nose up to the screen tweaking the fairness of the curves. I guess DaVinci proabably did a thumbnail sketch of Mona Lisa, and then stepped back and said "nah, the smile needs to be different."

This yak will use hollow graphite stringers. I'm hoping they will flex enough to fit the curves, yet have enough rigidity to make a stable platform. Boy, nothing is ever cut and dry is it?

If you know of any reaaaallllyyy cheap hard chine programs let me know. Free is even better (Thanks again Ross). This is really good practice for me though, because in trying to make the chines harder I learned a lot about volume distribution. You change one little thing and then the other thing you just change needs to be changed again, and then you change that and.... you get the picture.

Well, back to ze drawing board. Boy that z thing is contagious.

Zanks again,

Malcolm