: Once the parts are glued to length, yes, two instead of 4.

: I recommend using a simple jig to build in so alignment has to be
: right. The rocker and shape is forced to be what it should be
: so.... ?? I also recommend that the sides be cut longer than
: necessary so they don't get into the situation often seen with
: CLC boat questions forum, "My sides are too short, what do
: I do?" The length datum is taken from the stern.

: Ply is ply. Do you mean chine all the way to the ends like CLC
: kayaks vs the chine merging? If so, that's how mine go anyway.
: The chine vanishes about the same place as this Glen-L method. I
: always use a "rolled" deck (tortured? Not really, just
: curved all the way, bow to just about the stern where I put a
: short flat deck for the rudder to land on and makes it neater
: for the cables to emerge.

: ???

: Sounds about the dimensions of the kayak I'm paddling at present -
: 5 metres x 0.51 metres.

: Alex

Plywood will "easily" bend in one direction at a time, torturing plywood is making it curve in two or more directions at once.

Bill H.