: Having bought Nick's book, I changed my building goals from assembling a kit
: to doing a completely scratch build, including hand-lofting plans from the
: book data and ripping my own cedar strips. I now have my forms cut out,
: but I've noticed that the forms are not completely perfect. As with
: anything done by hand (especially for the first time) some curves are not
: perfectly symetrical left/right, on some cutouts I cut inside a line, etc.

Hi Andy

I did just the same about six months ago - lofted and cut the forms from Nick's book for a Guillemot. For the middle of the boat, I imagine that small deviations of here and there won't matter, but I would think that the sectional forms close to the bow and stern are pretty important to get right, especially close to the waterline.

For my part, I found mounting them on the strongback the more difficult task. I wrote it all up on a blog (see link below). Note if you are building a Guillemot there is a minor discrepancy between the end forms and the relevant sectional forms which had me scratching my head for a while (see pic and link)

Good luck!

Regards, Ian