: While double checking something in Nick's book last night I realized that I
: put all of the forms on facing the ends of the boat rather than the center
: as the book suggests. This includes the small forms that I glued onto the
: end forms, doh!!!

Dave,

What you can do without changing Nick's lines at all is to chamfer the edges of the forms (where necessary) to conform to the slope of a strip at each form. Using a plane and/or spokeshave this won't take as long as you might expect. It will let the strips fit tightly against the forms as you near the ends of the kayak. Putting it another way, the sides of the forms closest to amidships will conform to the designer's lines.

Len Thunberg