: hi i am from the uk and although we mainley use metric measurements
: we do understand imperial (feet and inches) i am trying to build
: nicks guillemot double. i have lofted the points from the book
: the strip built sea kayak. i did find the table very difficult
: to understand as some dimensions were a-b axis and others b-a
: axis this made it very time consuming and now i have come to
: assemble the forms on the strongback some of my forms seem
: wrongand the bow and stern form dont seem to work at all. does
: it work or am i stupid? i may be as well burning all my forms
: and purchasing some full size plans from him directly.

You may have figured this out, but if the offsets printed in the book included some errors, since corrected on the Guillemot site.
The corrected offsets may be found at:
http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/information/products/books/building_stripplanked_boats/changes_and_corrections