Hawgster

While you are looking at different designs, you may find the Yost designs interesting to look at also. Just Google Yost and you will find some links. There is a lot of useful information on that web page also.

I got the Curlew skinned. Getting close to putting a finish on it.

New Mexico, Thanks, working on the skinning.

This is a view from my home, sort of what the terrain looks around here . It is very different than New England.

Sorry about the FOSH instead of the FROG. In the mountains were I live, grass lawns are not readily available. I will try to improvise and come up with something.

Frame on sawhorse. I hope to get this skinned this week. I lofted the curlew offsets from Jeff's book. I ripped the stringers out of cedar 2x6 and made the sections from Baltic Birch.

Thank you for the tips. I found some 5x5 BB. I am going to pick some up tomorrow.

I have been trying to find good plywood (marine okoume, baltic birch) locally (New Mexico) and not having any luck. It is starting to look like I will need to have plywood shipped to me. Having the plywood cut into smaller pieces will save tremendously on shipping costs. I would like to know what would be the optimal size to have these pieces cut into from a 4x8 sheet? I am looking at building a Poco Barta or Curlew.

Thanks for your reply. I just finished a Seabee 13 foot and put it in the water last week. I scarfed all the stringers on that one. My decision is based more on which kayak will fulfill my needs for use on inland lakes in New Mexico. Even though I like the idea of using non-scarfed stringers.

I found the answer to my question in a much earlier post. A similar question was asked with the same post title. The answer was to add a foot to the overall length of the boat to the stringers. Now I have to decide to either scarf wood for the Poco Barta or just build the Curlew without having to do any scarfing.

Hello forum members this is my first post, I found the posts on this forum very interesting and informative. I discovered a fairly clean 16 foot cedar plank at a near by home improvement store. I ripped it and got 6 decent boards plus an additional board that would be good for scarfing. I am planning on building the Poco Barta. I would like to ask if someone would tell me if 16 feet is long enough for the gunwales, chines and keel or would I have to scarf a little extra in order to build the Poco Barta? I am also considering the Curlew. I recently lofted and built a Seabee 13 foot for my wife so now it is time to build myself a decent kayak.