Edwin Monk's book how to build wooden boats has designs for 16 different
boats. One of these is a centre board sloop called Curlew, which I'm
interested in building. Has anyone experience of building & sailing this
boat?

Regards
Gerard

Just the ticket for you: Look at
http://galaxy.lunarpages.com/~pmayna2/ and scroll down
to where he starts to talk about the sailboat on the
Chesapeake. Video as well!

Frank