> It's great that we're here sharing the correct offsets for the West River
> 180. But take it easy on the "responsibility for our actions"
> thing. For the $4 cost of the magazine you got enough information to build
> a boat that goes for $50 in plan form. That's better than a 90% discount
> and I'm not counting the value of the other 70 pages in the magazine.

> Part of being a boatbuilder is solving the problems that arise and taking
> responsibility for the outcome of the project. Mistakes in the offset
> tables are not uncommon in any set of plans. The offsets in The Strip
> Build Kayak contain mistakes. But the responsible builder can spot and

Tkanks to you Mike for putting light on the offset drama. And We, the boat , kayak builder must be very thankful to the designerslike Guillemot k, Clc and others for opening these bbs to us, thus providing us with a tremendous network of helping hands, not to mention the arising of a brotherhood unseen anywhere else.

So,let`s applaud to these guis, they deserve it .
> correct these errors by using a little common sense.

> The whole process of lofting is an error correction process. In the
> pre-computer days of boat design offsets were often scaled from small
> scale plans or even half models. This process is intrinsically inaccurate,
> not to mention the manual transcribing of tables of numbers, which lends
> itself to errors. Lofting and fairing of lines lets the builder spot and
> correct errors and prove that the different views of the boat give
> dimensions that will be buildable.

> So there are ways to deal with offset table errors, not the least of which
> is this BBS, without taking a poke at the nice people at Sea Kayaker and
> CLC who gave you something of value for next to nothing.