First before you get started either lay the panels that came with the kit a side or make a set of templates of the actual panels.

Now go for it!!!

I believe, if nothing else, you will learn something that you can apply to your next projects, regardless of the outcome. Many of us in this forum do not strictly follow the designers 100%. Some of the outcomes I've seen are simply amazing.

If you have the skills and the intellectual capacity (talent), and the desire to accomplish something different, I would only encourage you to go for it...willy

I've learned the most during my experiments that did not succeed...
> Hi all,

> We're getting ready to glue the deck for our Osprey, and Louise likes the
> look of the multi-chine hull so much that she wants a multi-chine deck
> too. Her idea is to cut the largest and central pair of panels in to 3
> parts, increasign the number of panels in the deck from 4 to 8. This would
> have the effect of giving the deck a rounder appearence and giving it the
> same multi-chine look as the hull (see stick-figure cross-section below).
> We're thinking that the saw kerfs may remove enough material to get the
> desired shape, but we may need to sand off a bit more to get the look we
> want.

> Aside from the need to modify the temporary forms, what issues do you
> imagine we'd encounter?

> Thanks for any suggestions!

> - Tim and Louise.