I favour the stitch and glue approach to cedar stripping, partly as I think it will be quicker, but mostly because of the appeal of hard chined hulls - in my eye these angular designs look fantastic. As with my taste for car design, I'm sure my taste may well cycle over time though between angular and smoothly-rounded designs.
Having trawled the net for anything readable on kayak design, I've learnt lots and I think I'm ready to have a go at designing my first kayak. There are various kayak design software programs out there, but most seem to assume a little prior CAD knowledge, which I don't have. Having an educational background which included technical drawing I suspect I'll be drawing my design out on paper, then transferring it to a ply cutting diagram without the use of CAD, which whilst this would seem complicated will only serve to better educate me as to how to calculate such things as Prismatic, Sectional and Block Coefficients and Centre of Lateral Area.
I've also managed to find suppliers of sustainable, environmentally friendlier, materials. Marineply.com supply FSC certified marine plywood, and Sustainable Composites can provide hemp cloth as a replacement for glassfibre and vegetable based resins.
Looks like I'd better clear some space in the garage.. anyone know where I can get a technical drawing desk cheap??
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