I guess my only defense for not mentioning ship curves is kayaks are boats and "guillemot" is a french word.

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> I was hoping that I was not the only person who noticed this.
> I thought about raising this issue, but felt that the overall quality
> of the book made up for this small problem. Having two degrees in
> Naval Architecture, I often take offense at people talking about drawing
> ships lines with french curves. The only thing worse is reference
> to using a T-square.

> I have recently come to the conclusion that I don't want to build
> a boat, rather I NEED to build a boat. How can I consider my self
> a Navl Architect having never designed and built anything to travel
> about in? Nick's book has greatly reinforced my need to build a cedar
> strip boat. I was thinking about stripping a small cat boat though.
> Does anyone out there have any experience stripping a hull like this.
> Sorry for rambling on.