: This is my first time building a kayak. I am currently drawing the
: forms for the Guillemont Kayak as per the 'The strip-built sea
: kayak' book and have run into a problem with the form for the
: bow.

Hi Justin

I'm building my first, also a Guillemot, and like you drafted the forms from the book. There is a small discrepancy between the bottoms of the end forms and the adjacent cross-sectional forms. It had me scratching my head for a while (I discovered it when mounting the forms on the strongback).

I wrote it up in an article here:
http://ianjohnsonz.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/end-forms-dont-quite-match-forms-2-15/

Pic from the article attached. Good luck!

Ian