Its gotta be 80 outside here in SoCal, and probably most, if not all, the CKF'ers are out paddling...I'm out puttering in my garage (gotta finish, finish?, get started, this beast).

The 4 bottom pieces can easily fit on one 4x8 sheet, including the length of the scarfs, with some scrap left over. The sides can fit on one sheet, since most of its width is approx. 6", with the tips needing almost a foot of width. I was going to go with a 8'-1.5'-8' set of three sections. The two 6"x1.5' center pieces were going to come from the "scrap" area between the two 8' sections (each 8' section was going to be lofted against the factory edge of the ply). So I'll have about a 1'x3' piece of scrap left over, which together with the scrap from the hull bottom, I had planned to use to strip a recessed cockpit area. So those two sheets were going to be my 5.2mm ply.

The 6 deck pieces will also be 8'x1.5'x8', and it'll take about 1.5 sheets of ply, sort of. the deck sides will take about half a sheet, so the left over areas from this second sheet will also supply the middle sections of the deck and deck sides, and I think I'll have enough left over for two bulkheads.

So, thats two sheets of 5.2mm and two sheets of 1/8th ply, with the "heavier" stuff on the bottom. Or I could just go with 4 sheets of 1/8th ply, but I like the color contrast, as well as the extra 2mm on the bottom (I might just mix graphite powder in to do the final coats on the hull bottom though, which kind of defeats the color contrast aspect though). With all interior seams taped, extra layer in the cockpit, inside and outside glassed with 4oz. cloth. I might even get some carbon fiber to add a strip near the front of the cockpit opening and near the hatch openings, and if I get ambitious, maybe try a carbon fiber coaming, ala oneoceankayaks technique (also seen on YostWerks).

Thats the current plan anyway. I guess I need to start a blog...

: Looking at his nesting pattern...
: you can see that the whole design comes out to 17"2" long by
: 2'8" wide, and the design is only for one side. You need to double
: this. So even if you get the length from making up the difference with
: scrap pieces, you'll need 4 sheet of plywood, and have 4 pieces which are
: about 8' long and 16" wide.