Question...1. What is the name of Nick's book you recommended? Thanks for all the information

: I want to reinforce what Bill Hamm said.
: In the past all the fiberglass canoe producers maintained a shop
: where all their prospective designs were first built using the
: strip-building process. Today kayaks are more numerous than
: canoes because they can be produced cheaply in big numbers using
: rotomolding. The rotomolding process can produce hull shapes
: that cannot be easily dupicated in strips. So I don't know if
: strip-building is the favored way of building one-off
: test-models. But they certainly have to build test models before
: they shell out $1500 per foot for a rotomolding mold. And even
: if you have a mold you have to have a machine worth a couple of
: hundred thousands of dollars to spin it for the molding process.