"Chalatso" wrote in message ...
Graduating to my first multi-sheet stitch-n-glue... butt joints with blocks
are ugly, scarfing will throw off my sheet layout. Can I use a plain butt
joint, supported on both sides by glass and epoxy?

Chuck

I am the designer of that boat.
Use the butt blocks please.
Do not assume that they are ugly: we work hard on locating the butt
blocks in a strategic spot. Here, the bottom butt block is under the
seat, you can't see it.
The side butt block is right in the middle and looks very appropriate
there. It is a local reinforcement.
Look at the pictures he
http://www.bateau2.com/gallery/NC16/index.htm

Those butt blocks aren;t bad at all.

If you scarf instead of using butt blocks, you will need 2 mores
sheets of plywood because of the width of the scarf . . .

There is another version of that plan that uses fiberglass splices and
produces a longer boat but no scarf version.