I ended up guessing at an offset, marked that out, then used the original measurements from that line, which worked pretty well.
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However this means you have to recalculate all the measurements for those three planks. Who would want to buy an extra sheet of sixty some dollar plywood? They say approximately how this can be done - shift up plank 3, flip planks 4 and 5.
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The plans as given show how to mark out the planks to fit on 4 sheets of plywood, but they hint that in can be done on 3. You mark out one set, then use that as a template for the rest. This design is symmetric left and right and front and rear, so it's made from 4 identical sets of 5 planks. I opted for 5mm, assuming it'd be the sweet spot on the scale of light to durable. The plans say this can be built in 4, 5, or 6mm marine plywood (without giving guidelines to help you decide). You'd be hard pressed to build this boat without some auxiliary instruction, which I'm getting from a couple books. The drawings look fine, but the plans contain very little information, leaving a lot up to guesswork or other sources. It has 5 planks per side, with a little tumblehome, which gives it a nice rounded shape, contrary to many S&G canoe designs I've seen, which tend to look a little angular. I'm building the 15'8 "Prospector" design by Selway Fisher. The goal is to eventually build a stitch-and-glue sailboat, but figured I should start with something smaller to make mistakes on.