Backyard Renegade wrote:

I will not sit here and argue experience. I will note that we agree to
disagree and the only "wivestale" I submit to is:
"Don't screw with a tried and true design". Other than that, I am
pretty good at math...

OK.

If "Don't screw with a tried and true design" was truly your main principle,
then you'd be building dugout canoes. You've seen yourself a great design made
from modernizing... and significantly lightening... a traditional design. The
Gloucester Gull weighs about half as much as a traditionally planked dory.

I know how difficult it is to persuade anybody with logic, but I can't resist
trying.... if building classic designs to be heavy is good, then is building
them heavier better?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King