flat-pack plywood kit?

[srimes]

I saw this article on Duckworks this morning:
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/...uick/index.htm

Here's the website of the kit:
http://eco5.weebly.com/kit.html

Looks clever to me, but this kit seems very expensive.

What do ya'll think?

[thedutchtouch]

id be worried about all those points of entry for water and cracking along where the 'ears' go through the hull. if i were to ever build from a kit, i'd probably go with a stitch and glue one like from CLC, this seems like a lot of extra effort, when stitching together a boat aint that hard

[rwatson]

check out the discussion on this boat at

Fast unique assembly method !

it discusses a wide variety of potential problems.

"Ears through the hull" is a good concept, because although chine stitching is easy, locating interior panels inside a curved hull is problematic. Having pre cut insertion points makes life much easier.