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Short Kayak
By:Ray Clark
Date: 8/26/1999, 6:54 pm

I provide a kayak design with PLYBOATS 2.01 that was used by Chris to develop the Mill Creek design. This was a modification of Herreshoff's kayak design from Sensible Cruising Designs. I changed the displacement shape and center of buoyancy location. According to the software,the original design would tend to squat. I also increased the beam a bit, i like stability for cruising. The PLYBOATS plywood layout should make this easy to build. If built in an exterior frame system, "Basket Frame" as shown in the PLYBOATS manual, it should go well. Ray Clark