Phill,

what if we just the hulls as a box with rectangular crossections. The sides will of course move towards eachother towards the bow and stern and the keel plate will have rocker as will the deck plate.

That would be really easy to build and how bad could it be performance wise ?

With this a homebuilder could make the hulls in a single day, right ?

Hell, the optimists are almost a square box as well.

If he wants to improve the looks and pitchpole behaviour then the homebuilder can make a styrofoam fairing on the front of the boat covered with a layer of glass and glue it to decks at the bows right ?

Its just an idea so everybody feel free to fire away.

Wouter